by Christine | Oct 30, 2011 | Welcome Column
I DIDN’T spend my summer playing the fiddle. At the Fathers Day Festival we had our annual Welcome Writers jam at my campsite after the main stage show ended on Thursday night. I’d been pretty sick wen I arrived on Sunday and just seemed to get worse all week. By...
by Christine | Aug 5, 2015 | Welcome Column
Thursday, July 16, 2015 I “discovered” bluegrass last year via my 14 year old son, Patrick. In 2014, he joined the kid’s Academy that Darby Brandli started, thanks to the encouragement of Bruce and Scott Thompson, my husband’s cousins. I got to watch my son and his...
by Christine | Nov 16, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Today’s Bert Daniel’s day for a new Welcome column. Bert, who’s just about the most reliable of all our columnists, send the following email to me this morning…”Rick,I had a column written but forgot to...
by Christine | Nov 8, 2009 | Welcome Column
Well it’s been just over a year now that I’ve been privileged to be one of your intrepid welcome columnists and I’d like to thank all of you loyal readers for hanging in there with me. Remember, good comments (and any significant cash contributions) go directly to me....
by Christine | Jan 24, 2020 | Welcome Column
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the man who writes about all people and about all time.”- George Bernard ShawI’m not sure that my three kids and five grandkids understand my love for Deep-South foods and customs, and I know for a fact that they...
