by Christine | Sep 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; When planning for one’s posterity it is best to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine, 1776 The other night I got to watching a movie on TV named the “Aviator”. It was about the famous...
by Christine | Aug 11, 2011 | Welcome Column
Wednesday afternoon and we are still pondering if we can get down to Hollister for any part of the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, my second favorite after Grass Valley. We have to baby-sit until 5:30 p.m. on Friday, so we need to decide if it’s worth it to...
by Christine | May 25, 2018 | Welcome Column
When I was a kid, we spent Memorial Day tending the graves of friends and relatives. We picked flowers from my aunt’s garden—gladioli, asters, zinnias, and fragrant little pink sweet peas—and gathered them up with ribbons into bouquets and put them in mason jars...
by Christine | Oct 31, 2019 | Welcome Column
One of the first gigs I ever played (if playing free counts as a gig) was for the Red Cross chapter in the little town of Crockett, where I grew up. The chapter had some kind of volunteer relationship with the Napa State Hospital and they sent us up there to play a...
by Christine | Jun 27, 2010 | Welcome Column
On Sunday, June 13, I climbed behind the wheel of my car and headed for Grass Valley; crazy thoughts spinning through my brain; my mind was flipping back and forth between anticipation and apprehension. My first Father’s Day Festival at Grass Valley was filling my...
by Christine | Jan 26, 2017 | Welcome Column
“A wise man once said…nothing. ” JD Rhynes From 1978 to 1980 there was a small bluegrass Festival that was held at the Ghost Mountain Ranch Campground at Pollock Pines California, that featured California...
