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This home located at 6829 Summerfield Lambertville, MI was home to Ina Duley Ogdon who wrote a song that inspired a nation. Brighten The Corner Where You Are was written in 1912 published in 1913 and took the world by storm. Ina's words have reached every corner of the world and today artists are still recording her song. She wrote her song in this rustic cabin and we need to save it. Ina Duley Ogdons song has been sang by the rich and famous. Ella Fitzgerald, The Mills Brothers, Alice Faye, Elyse Knox, Joan Valerie and Alice Armand, Joan Crawford, Billy Sunday, Burl Ives, Welling & Shannon, Londonerry Choir, The Wilders, Lillian Russell, Margaret O'brian, Ernie Ford, Homer Rhodeheaver, The Kings of Harmony, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Soul Stirrers, The White Sisters, The Roberta Martin Singers, Max Robinson, Red Foley, Red Sovine, Gipsy Smith, Liliana Rose and more. Brighten The Corner Where You Are has been on Broadway in the show Brighten The Corner, It was sang in Meet me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland, It was in the movie Laughing Sinners starring Joan Crawford, The Movie Tobacco Road with Marjorie Rambeau, The Peanut Man in 1947, the 1930 Movie Up The River, 1931-The Public Enemy staring James Cagney & Mae Clarke, Alice in Movieland (1940) The Donna Reed Tv Show, The Beverly Hillbillies. The words were used in advertising across the Country, The words were a household name.  Today they are published in nearly every language across the globe. The words are still inspiring to so many and surely will not be forgotten.  

Melissa Archibald & Trudy Wieske Urbani are working on preserving this old home. We currently have 134 signatures on our petition that is online and countless others on our paper petition.  We have 39 members of the web site interested in preserving the cabin as well.  The media is also supporting us and we have gained exposure through them many times.  Please contact us today at marchi1856@aol.com if you would like to be involved with this effort.

 

Great News, a new up and coming singer just released her version of Brighten The Corner Where You are on her new album. Liliana Rose is a folk rock singer and because her songs are so inspiring during these hard times radio stations across the Country will begin playing her music. Tune in to 92.5 Kiss FM WVKS-FM Toledo-OH  to listen for Liliana Rose and Brighten The Corner Where You Are. 

Did you know that Brighten the Corner was in The Donna Reed show in the episode "The boys in 309"? Did you know that Irene Ryan who played Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies also sang Brighten The Corner in one of the episodes? There are also rumors that the famous Mr. Rodgers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood also sang Brighten The Corner.  President Ronald Reagans favorite hymnn was Brighten The Corner Where You Are.  1000 War Prisoners sang "Brighten The Corner"   "Brighten The Corner is an American proverb"  Did you know Brighten The Corner was in The Sopranos Season Seven By Maurice Yacowar.  Teddy Roosevelt sang Brighten the Corner on his campaign trail.

 

 

Quote From The  Florence Morning News (Florence, South Carolina June 5, 1948)  

Songtime Hymnstory
The year is 1913 -- Homer Rodeheaver makes his way to the platform in the Tabernacle at Columbus, Ohio. The crowd of 5,000 anticipates the excitement yet to come. Homer has chosen a new song - written because of a car accident.

Ina Ogdon was to speak at Chautauqua (a Methodist camp in western New York) in the summer of 1912 when her father was injured in an automobile accident, just days before her planned departure. Choosing to remain home and care for her father, Ina may have disappointed the worshipers at Chautauqua but millions more have been blessed instead. Determined to brighten the corner where God placed her, she overcame despair and disappointment that set in at home that summer and penned the words that were to brighten so many lives.

Homer stands in the Billy Sunday Tabernacle at Ohio with trombone in hand. At the first notes, the dust rises from the sawdust floor as thousands jump to their feet. Then the air fills with the music and the words of Ina Ogdon's poem written that fateful summer of 1912. For the next 22 years, "Brighten the Corner" would open every Billy Sunday meeting and become the theme song for the Sunday campaigns.

Mrs. Ogdon thought she would reach thousands that summer but instead she has reached millions (more than 25 million copies of her song have been printed). Billy and Homer gave the song to over 100 million in the two hundred tabernacles they built. Even to this hour, my partner and I - as we do the Billy Sunday story -open the singing with "Brighten the Corner" - thus proving once again that "God's ways aren't always our ways but they are the best ways".

Bill Dagle - Hymn Historian

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