Where we got our name (The Brothers Burn What? Mountain)

     In a diary entry dated May 23, 1895, Joseph MacDiarmad, a farmer, wrote of two brothers who wandered on a hilly country road near his land in Monches, Wisconsin.  One of the brothers carried a guitar in its black case hanging from his shoulder with a rope.  The other carried a small tom drum hanging similarly from his shoulder.  MacDiarmad wrote:  "They call themselves The Brothers Burn Mountain, and seem to be unknown but to themselves, and I think they come from Wisconsin, but they have strange accents, almost Irish, almost Canadian, but mostly niether; and there's something about them that makes them look like goodly thieves, that wherever they go and whatever they do, they claim their lives back as their own, and they put their bounty into their sounds...."