by Christine | Oct 13, 2012 | Welcome Column
“Getting old is not for sissies,” has been said more than once and not on just a few occasions. Much of that statement is true when thinking about dealing with aches and pains, loss of friends and loved ones, and the kick-you-in-the-teeth impact of the loss of your...
by Christine | Mar 31, 2011 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: This being a fifth Thursday of the month, writing duties would typically fall on Rick Cornish. However, as some of you may have read, his table saw mishap has left him temporarily less than dexterous. (Took him fifteen minutes to write this paragraph.)...
by Christine | Dec 15, 2014 | Welcome Column
Suppose you decide to play a recording from Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, or the Stanley Brothers or Flatt and Scruggs. You’re about to listen to some Bluegrass music, right? After all, these are the bands that form the pillars of the genre we now call Bluegrass...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2013 | Welcome Column
Old Doc wasn’t really that old, but he’d been at it a long time. During thirty years of practice in this small town he’d delivered most of the current residents who were under that age. He worked very hard but it was worth it for him. Sure, it was...
by Christine | Oct 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
Maybe you know how to spot them. Maybe you’ve see them being played on various bluegrass festival stages, or in jams. Or maybe not. But they are there, occasionally, every so often, or once in a “blue moon.”Sometimes their sound will catch your ear. Sometimes...
