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...
by Christine | Sep 22, 2017 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; it has been said that there is more to life than bluegrass music. Really? Who cares? JD Rhynes This story starts back when I was a teenager in Stockton California about 1954 when I got my first car, a 1936...
by Christine | Aug 23, 2012 | Welcome Column
A couple of weeks ago I was asked on the message board how I came to know Vern and Ray which gave me the idea to use the subject for a welcome message. So here we go; Way back in the late 1940s there was a disc jockey in Stockton, California by the name of Dusty...
