by Christine | Jul 4, 2010 | Welcome Column
His mouth was dry. His heart beat so hard that the young Massachusetts’s man was sure that those crouching at his elbows behind the earthen works could hear it and think him cowardly. Was anyone else as terrified? To the young militia man’s left was the Mystic River....
by Christine | Aug 19, 2009 | Welcome Column
It was forty years ago this month ? the legendary Woodstock festival. It was possibly the most iconic event in American history in the 20th century. Like any major event, especially after nearly half a century, there?s a ton of mythology surrounding the event, and...
by Christine | Sep 4, 2016 | Welcome Column
Twelve years have passed now, since the Bluegrass Bug cornered me and said, ”You like this stuff, eh?” After this much time, one might be very well adapted to an assortment of instruments used to play Bluegrass music. Well, that is the...
by Christine | Feb 25, 2018 | Welcome Column
So I asked Lynn, well in advance, what she’d like for Valentines Day. She batted her lashes, smiled the smile that made me fall in love way back in the last century, and said, I’d like a sea cruise. Do you think we can afford it, I asked, thinking about...
by Christine | Apr 2, 2020 | Welcome Column
It’s the first Thursday of April so I guess I’m up. My hook for this month is going to be woodshedding. Long time readers will know that I have visited this topic quite a few times in the past and just to be clear we are not discussing practicing or rehearsing but...
by Christine | Feb 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
Some time back David Lange started a thread on the message board about the anniversary of Woodstock, that seminal event wedged into the psyche of a large percentage of people my age and above. And in reading the messages I started remembering stuff that I hadn’t...
