by Christine | Feb 3, 2018 | Welcome Column
Back in August of 2009 the San Francisco Chronicle did a nice Sunday piece on the about-to-open brand new Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. This past Sunday the Datebook section had a letter from Gallivan Burwell of New Orleans, the very first musician to...
by Christine | Oct 8, 2009 | Welcome Column
Back in August the San Francisco Chronicle did a nice Sunday piece on the about-to-open brand new Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. This past Sunday the Datebook section had a letter from Gallivan Burwell of New Orleans, the very first musician to play the...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2014 | Welcome Column
The 39th CBA Fathers’ Day Festival is over. It is gone. It is no more. It has been written in the bluegrass history book. Like Abraham Lincoln, the 39th FDF belongs to the ages. However, the memories live on. Returning to this festival in the time machine that I...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2014 | Welcome Column
Melody Player likes acoustic guitars. Wait, that’s not quite correct, because her feelings transcend like and find themselves in the love category; that category which contains many different kinds of love. Love, in this case, is more than just a four letter word....
by Christine | Jul 24, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where it’s been hot enough to seriously warrant a review and possible redefinition of the term ‘serve at room temperature’; where, by a little before four in the afternoon yesterday, the usual time for the household’s twenty minute...