little drummer boy...

nothing like getting a surprise gift in the mail, this one courtesy of mr. jenkins who runs a nice blog on the history of disneyland called stuff from the park (check out today's great old snapshot of a ticketbooth in frontierland!) - over the years he has dropped a number of little gems in our laps, and this one also shines.

according to the single link i could find online: "the shippen family band were music makers of 1890's. the shippen brothers family band was quite an organization, made up of two fathers and their ten children. they played at many events around the county".