Our Album of today is actually a video. A TV special that was done concerning Allison's recording of A Hundred Miles or More. At the 33:01 mark starts the background behind a most phenomenal and haunting song called "Jacob's Dream"
The Lost Children of the Alleghenies is a folk story from the Appalachia region of the United States. Joseph and George Cox are known through the Allegheny Mountains as The Lost Children of the Alleghenies. George and Joseph Cox, then aged seven and five respectively disappeared from their home in Pavia on 24 April 1856. Their dead bodies were found several days later in the surrounding woods and they were buried in the Mount Union Cemetery.
The legend tells that the night after the disappearance a local farmer, Jacob Dibert, had a dream in which he walked a path through the woods past a dead deer, a child's shoe and a fallen birch tree and eventually to a copse of birch trees in a small ravine. Here he found the bodies of the Cox boys. Dibert told no-one but his wife about the dream, however after it recurred for a further two nights he told his brother-in-law Harrison Whysong. Whysong recognised elements from Dibert's dream and the two men decided to make a search, culminating in the discovery of the bodies just as the dream had described - under birch trees in a small ravine reached along a track with a dead deer, a child's shoe and a fallen birch. (from Wikipedia)
Alison Kruass : A Hundred Miles or More - YouTube
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