512:. Article by Stephen D. Winick of the American Folklife Center, Smithsonian Museum on Doerflinger's collecting of "The Leaving of Liverpool", more on informant Patrick Tayluer who supplied the song, and Doerflinger's interactions with the Smithsonian Museum, in Folklife Center News Volume 30, Nos. 3-4, Summer-Fall 2008 (accessed 19 January 2017)
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where he performed magic shows and collected over 60 songs that formed the basis of his 1931 Princeton thesis "Shantymen and
Shantyboys", later the title of his major published folksong collection. After leaving Princeton he initially gained employment as a social worker, undertook graduate studies
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December 23, 2000, his second wife predeceased him by 5 years. He is commemorated in The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor and a plaque at Staten Island commemorating his
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England and Atlantic Canada spent only their summers at sea, and in the winter worked in the forest as lumberjacks, also known as shanty boys), and
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Doerflinger's first wife, Joy (Homer), and published in 1943. After his first wife's death in 1946 at the age of only 31, he eventually remarried to her sister, the writer
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