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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
