It sings like this blue sky - clear and glorious.
I wrote this instrumental guitar piece for the National Fingerpicking Championship at Winfield 2002. I didn't get to do it because I bombed my first tune in the preliminary round and didn't make it to the final round where I intended to play it. (The winner said I nailed my second tune..so I believe him..But the guy that was 'supposed' to win said:"That was scary!"....so I dunno. LOL!)
Anyway...so now someone gets to hear Martha's Egg, warts and all, on this down-n-dirty recording.
Martha was the last surviving Passenger Pigeon. She died at the Cinncinati Zoo in 1914 after a half century of relentless hunting had left the flocks reduced to absolute zero in the wild by 1910. Passenger Pigeons once numbered in the billions in the North American skies. It's one species for which we know the exact moment of extinction. Shame on us!
Below is Martha's epitaph at the Smithsonian Institution where she is no longer on display but lies rotting in the basement:
MARTHA
Last of her species, died at 1 p.m.,
1 September 1914, age 29, in the
Cincinnati Zoological Garden.
EXTINCT