by Christine | Mar 18, 2014 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music has long been a family affair. This includes sibling duos or trios, husbands and wives, and entire pea-pickin’ families. There are lots of various permutations with uncles, aunts, cousins, in-laws, and outlaws, whatever. Some bands come out of a...
by Christine | May 7, 2013 | Welcome Column
Playing music is the ultimate viral phenomenon. Anyone learning an instrument invariably must share their mangled Stairway to Heaven with nearby friends, and eventually begin recruiting bystanders into their obsession. And it spreads like a fart in a yoga class. I was...
by Christine | Jun 5, 2007 | Welcome Column
The Today’s column from Rick Cornish (rcornish@sjcoe.net) Friday, June 8, 2007 There was a story in my family that was repeated at many a major extended clan gathering….Christmas dinners, BBQ’s at the river, grandparents anniversaries, anywhere that parents and...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2009 | Welcome Column
Over the course of the last 30 years in the fire service, and simply life in general, I have dealt with a great many people in a wide variety of situations. Sometimes the interaction has been positive, and sometimes it has not. However, when looked at objectively,...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2012 | Welcome Column
I hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving weekend as much as I did. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it’s the one day a year that the whole country sits down to dinner with the family (except for the wingnuts camping in line at Walmart). And speaking of...