If you found your way here via a QR code on a poster, you are looking at a picture based on David Childers’ song “Belmont Ford”.
I’m Mary Struble Deery, the co-writer of “Belmont Ford”.
The song is on David’s album “Run, Skeleton, Run”. The picture you are looking at was painted by David’s son, Robert. What follows is the story behind the song and the painting…
Keep listening and you’ll learn how I became interested in the catastrophic flood of 1916
The poem I wrote about it, entitled “When the River Went All Wrong” and then
David singing the song, inspired by the poem.
