| description | It may seem peculiar to some that
Larry Gorman, the notorious
nineteenth-century Island songmaker,
is as well remembered in his native
Prince County as the Yeos, Popes,
Myricks, Holmans, and other contemporary
figures who occupied real positions
of economic and political power
over that part of Prince Edward Island.
Upon close examination, however, this
should come as no surprise, given the
power of spontaneous satirical verse
which Gorman possessed. One of his
songs, a previously unpublished fragment
known as "Monaghan's Raffle,"
illustrates precisely the reasons for his
notoriety. |  |
