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How Great Thou Art (Part One of a Fathers Day Story)

by Christine | Mar 29, 2014 | Welcome Column

Editor’s note: It’s been our practice over the years that, in early spring, as we move toward the CBAs largest, oldest, and best-known event – – the Father’s Day Festival at grass Valley – – we bring back welcome columns that give a flavor of that...

How Great Thou Art (Part One of a Fathers Day Story)

by Christine | Jan 2, 2007 | Welcome Column

1986: Our twentieth year class reunion was coming up and after a long absence of seven years my oldest and dearest friend, Rick Cornish, calls me on the phone. It seems Rick has been keeping himself busy since the last time we talked in 1979. He is in a bluegrass...

How Great Thou Art (Part Two of a Fathers Day Story)

by Christine | Mar 30, 2014 | Welcome Column

Mud fest 1995 20th anniversary was the seventh and last Father’s Day festival my father and I enjoyed together. He died the day after Thanksgiving in 1995.I was having a hard time coming to grips with his death. I submitted a story to the CBA in May of 1996...

How Great Thou Art (Part Two of a Fathers Day Story)

by Christine | Jan 4, 2006 | Welcome Column

Mud fest 1995 20th anniversary was the seventh and last Father’s Day festival my father and I enjoyed together. He died the day after Thanksgiving in 1995.I was having a hard time coming to grips with his death. I submitted a story to the CBA in May of 1996...

How Green Was Grass Valley? Memories Of Father’s Days Festivals Past– Volume One

by Christine | Aug 29, 2015 | Welcome Column

Harrison Hamill, our young friend and fledgling banjo player, brought his friend into our camp at Grass Valley one day during the Father’s Day Festival in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. Harrison and his brother Finnegan received free admission to The Freight and...

HOW I CAME TO LOVE LADY GAGA AND OTHER STORIES ABOUT MY GRANDDAUGHTERS

by Christine | Aug 31, 2020 | Welcome Column

Sit down and get comfortable while I tell you how I came to love Lady Gaga.  She entered my life a few years ago, and I just don’t know what I’m going to do about her.It all has to do with some major plans of my older granddaughter, beautiful of course, and how...
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