Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter (Rise Again!)

We miss you Stan! Thank you for the music you left us.
A 45 min documentary on the life and music of Stan Rogers:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8315817712851371947#

Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers

Born November 29th, 1949 in Hamilton, Ontario; Died June 2nd, 1983 at the age of 33 in a tragic airplane accident flying from Dallas, Texas to Toronto and Montreal when an in-flight fire forced it to make an emergency landing at the Greater Cincinnati Airport.

Smoke was filling the cabin from an unknown source, and once on the ground, the plane's doors were opened to allow passengers to escape. Halfway through the evacuation of the plane, the oxygen rushing in from outside caused a flash fire. Rogers was one of the passengers still on the plane at the time of the fire. Eyewitness reports published at the time said that a man of Rogers' height and build escaped the plane, but then turned and went back inside, apparently to assist in the rescue of others.

His remains were cremated and his ashes scattered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Rogers

We miss you Stan! Thank you for the music you left us.

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• Songwriter
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• Scotia
• Rise
• Again

[Wanderlustus]

Thanks, man!  He was a grandie!

[moffa18]

Yes.. i just saw this... what a great video and what a great song... by far my favourites are Witch of Westmoreland and Harris and the Mare.. but this is great also.. cheers