It Is Well

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Sean shares the storybehind this famous hymn. To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader's Digest, Garden and Gun, a...

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1:04.0	Music Sean South starts now. Anna and her four young daughters were on a trip to England on the SS Ville de Haver.
1:12.1	It was a French steamship, all iron, built like a tank.
1:15.7	Except, of course, tanks weren't around yet.
1:17.1	This was 1873.
1:21.2	The little girls were excited to be on a ship.
1:24.6	Oh, they were running around the deck, playing tag in the companion ways,
1:28.2	seeing what happened when they spit overboard at high altitude.
1:37.8	The ship was loaded deep, with mostly first-class passengers. It was November. The weather was biting cold. Everyone was wearing coats and mittens. They were bound for Aria de Grasse and Aferreux,
1:47.6	which took me about six weeks to learn how to pronounce.
1:50.6	It was in France.
1:53.9	Anna and her daughters were Americans,
1:56.2	on their way to England to help Reverend Moody
1:59.1	with the famous church revivals happening over there.
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