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Now the year is turning

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Now it's happy autumn time Refrain First Line: God, who made the whole good year

[Now it's happy autumn time]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Grace Wilbur Conant Incipit: 55116 67112 75332 Used With Text: Now It's Happy Autumn Time

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Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Hymns for Primary Worship #25 (1946) Refrain First Line: God, who made the whole good year Languages: English Tune Title: [Now it's happy autumn time]

Now the year is turning

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Primary Music and Worship #d58 (1930) First Line: Now it's happy autumn time Refrain First Line: God, who made the whole good year

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Grace Wilbur Conant

1858 - 1948 Composer of "[Now it's happy autumn time]" in Hymns for Primary Worship Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby. Born: September 9, 1858, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: April 7, 1948, Malden, Massachusetts. Grace remained single all her life. Her middle name was her mother’s maiden name. She served as musical editor for the Kindergarten Review for at least six years, starting in 1908. Her works include: Songs for Little People, with Frances Weld Danielson (Boston, Massachusetts: The Pilgrim Press, 1905) Worship and Song, with Benjamin S. Winchester (Pilgrim Press, 1913) Religious Dangers of Modern Tendencies in So-Called Religious Songs, 1917 Song and Play for Children, with Frances Weld Danielson (Pilgrim Press, 1925) --The Cyber Hymnal

Nancy Byrd Turner

1880 - 1971 Author of "Now It's Happy Autumn Time" in Hymns for Primary Worship Turner, Nancy Byrd. Born in Boydton, Virginia, July 29, 1880, daughter of Byrd Thornton Turner and Nancy Addison (Harrison) Turner. Composed her first verse at three. First published verse at age of 8--a romantic ballad, "Ruth in the Dentist's Chair" (he fell in love). Her father was an Episcopal minister; they lived in about a dozen small towns or rural communities during her childhood. In 1916, she went to Boston and joined the staff of Youth's Companion. She wrote under many pen names, and published in several magazines. She won numerous awards, including the "Golden Rose" of the New England Poetry Society and the Lyric Associates award of 1951. --Letter from Turner Rose to Jean Woodward Steele, Westminster Press, 1 February 1974, DNAH Archives.