Margaret: Music Inspired By A Trashbin Find


More than 20 years ago a San Francisco musician named Chicken John Rinaldi found a scrapbook in the bottom of a dumpster along with other contents a house. The scrapbook told the tragic story of the life of Margaret Rucker, poet and daughter of an early Everett, WA pioneer.

Rinaldi mentioned the scrapbook to his friend, musician Jason Webley who is also from Everett. Wembley was also intrigued by Margaret's story and did a bit of digging. He discovered that Margaret Rucker came from wealth and privilege and that she wrote melancholy poetry. She was 43, with two young boys, when her husband shot himself in front of her. She died 9 years later in Burbank and her obituary was contained in the scrapbook.

Webley and a group of his musician friends raised money through Kickstarter and created a powerful music project from the photographs, pages of Rucker's poetry, a telegram from her husband-to-be and newspaper clippings.



Listen to the songs here.



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