The Camp Out

ALERT – ALERT – ALERT!!!Hello Bluegrassers! Please check your calendars! You have a couple of months to plan for the CBA FALL CAMP OUT.The Fall Camp out – October 15 – 21, 2018! Now, I know you have been busy and will continue to be, but the...

The Carl That Roared

Yesterday morning, I was in a business-to-business networking meeting, and talk turned to business communications, or more specifically, the “dumbing down” of modern communications. The youngest man in the room was 39, and there was much moaning and groaning over the...

The Carter Family

When I was a lad, I never knew what bluegrass music was. All we did was go to church and listen to church music. My daddy was a fundamentalist, holiness, Pentecostal preacher, and he was careful about what he let into the house. The music was sort of longhair....

The CBA Election is Upon Us!

Boy, the current shananigans in ol’ DC are enough to turn anybody off the democratics process, right? Not so fast. It’s time for a annual CBA Board of Directors election, and that means stifling your disgust with the macro-political situation and focusing...

The CBA from Seedling to Giant Redwood

THE DAILY GRIST…“We grew from a small seed.”–Carl Pagter (Today’s column is a reprint of an article I wrote back in 2006 for Bluegrass Now magazine.  With the start of this fresh new year, we also look back at our past so I thought it would be...

THE CHAROLAISE

Lynn and I actually have a manger here at Whiskey Creek.  No, we don’t, nor have we ever, had visiting dignitaries stop by the place to deliver precious gifts or sing the praises of He who shall bring peace on earth.  But we DO have a mnager, complete...