The barn is packed with her familiar figures, including a chess board with Boynton-character pieces carved by a local artist/gardener a wall of books and merchandise and a retail-style greeting-card display rack holding a fraction of the 4,000-6,000 cards that she estimates she has produced since the early '70s.
"It always is a little surreal to go to some random place and see some Boynton drawing on the wall and know where it came from and know where she was when she did it." The kids say their dad was actually more of the storyteller, but both would read to them frequently, and Mom was "always making really atrocious puns," Darcy Boynton laughs.Īs for her drawings, they were just "the stuff of the universe," Keith Boynton says. They have four children, ages 16-27, and because the parents weren't crazy about the patriarchal tradition - or hyphenation - Caitlin, the oldest, and Devin, the third born (21), have their father's last name while Keith, 23, and Darcy, the youngest, have their mother's. Boynton's husband of 28 years is Jamie McEwan, a whitewater canoer who won an Olympic bronze medal in the sport in 1972 (slalom, singles) and also competed in Barcelona in 1992 (doubles, fourth place). "I don't know whether it would be oddly amusing each time or infuriating." (Weeks later she says, "We stuck with the entire alphabet.")īoynton takes a lunch break and drives 10 minutes to her office and studio, housed in a converted barn just up the driveway from her family's house of 25 years, a former inn built in 1728. "I have timed it it's like 50 seconds of alphabet, but you don't want to make multiple listenings difficult for a parent," Boynton says. Sitting at a console set up in the carriage house, Ford plays back the newest version of "Penguin," which features his just-recorded accompaniment that suggests "Heart and Soul" meets "Daydream Believer."īoynton and Ford already have recorded, at least in part, seven "Blue Moo" songs, including "Rabbit Tango," which LuPone is set to sing in their little studio the Beach Boys-like "Speed Turtle" and "The Uninvited Parade," in which the paraders march up and down every aisle of a supermarket from A to Z with no letup in gusto. Boynton also envisions the song landing on the next book-CD, tentatively titled "Blue Moo."
Anyone who buys it will be able to download the tune from the publisher's Web site. "Your Personal Penguin" is not only a song but also Boynton's latest board book, set for release next month by Workman. "She still remembers me from the time I did the Monkees and I was a little heartthrob," Jones says from a recent tour stop.
"You're working, and all of a sudden you go, `We got Davy Jones to do this,'" she says. Kramer (he sings "Cow Planet" on "Dog Train") and an ex-Monkee. Now she's doing it and getting to work with some childhood idols, including British Invasion rocker Billy J.
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