by Christine | Feb 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
The other day, I was reposing on my favorite resting place, in my shop, next to a good hot wood stove, listening to the rain on the roof. When the weather is cold and stormy here on my mountain, I always seem to gravitate to the small couch by the stove, and before I...
by Christine | Aug 8, 2020 | Welcome Column
“The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.” That’s what my neighbor Freddy Tolstoy said when he had finished a song on his old 1937 Martin D-28 guitar at a jam awhile back. Of course he was quoting Leo Tolstoy (no relation to Freddy), the revered Russian writer...
by Christine | Nov 3, 2010 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Bruce Campbell wrote in to CBAWEB Central this morning to say he needed to hit the sack, (don’t know whether it was Giants celebrating or election even monitoring), and wouldn’t deliver his regular Wedsnesday column. He asked if we could dig into the...
by Christine | Jan 19, 2018 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: And then there was the time eight years ago when some folks thought yours truly was attempting to do a little revisionist history on the life of old Joe Stalin. The photo I used in the add about becoming a CBA member was eventually id’d as...
by Christine | Jul 29, 2009 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Bruce Campbell Wednesday, July 29, 2009 This past week was marked by a extraordinary confluence of events, a harmonic convergence of massive proportions. It was something I had hoped would happen sometime in my lifetime, but never dared dream...
by Christine | Mar 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Those who look forward each month to the old Mountain Man’s tales here at the Welcome column were disappointed yesterday when they discovered that JD had a pinch hitter…thanks Yvonne for a great piece. Since Mr. Rhynes never, ever, ever misses his...
