Maine Folklife Center

Jim Cahill and Dot Ruppell, Singers

Jim Cahill and Dot Ruppell were both long time members of the Grange in Bingham, ME. Cahill, who worked in the lumberwoods as a younger man, was a member since the early 1960s. He sang in Bingham and at other Grange halls in Maine, though he never considered himself a singer. Ruppell, who joined the grange in the early 1950s, was the official pianist, or “official musician,” for the Bingham Grange.