by Christine | Aug 4, 2011 | Welcome Column
It’s never too early to start getting the word out, so I’d like to use today’s column to give a head’s up about Bluegrass on the Mountain, an event that Henry and I are organizing in our local area this coming fall. On October 15th, we will be presenting two fine...
by Christine | Oct 22, 2009 | Welcome Column
I know that a lot of you folks in the CBA remember Vic Cearly, more often referred to as “Moonshine Vic”. Vic passed away a few years back, but he will be remembered as long as there are those of us that had the good fortune of sampling his “Mountain...
by Christine | Aug 10, 2007 | Welcome Column
As is my habit, I occasionally go to the Message Board and re-read, from start to finish, some of the longer, more controversial threads, almost like a narrative than like reading individual posts made over a week or two or even three. I find that by doing this...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2013 | Welcome Column
Most everybody that I know in this world loves a good practical joke that, a. Doesn’t hurt anybody physically b. Or intentionally hurt anybody mentally. I know that every once in a while all of us have been in a situation where a practical joke presents itself,...
by Christine | May 5, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, which is actually the name of the little gravel cul de sac on which we live, and more interestingly, I think, the name of the creek that bifurcates our six acres just outside the little town of Jamestown, a speck of a berg whose...
by Christine | Jul 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
Every year, soon after the Father’s Day Festival, the subject of Board Elections comes up. I don’t have the long experience with the CBA that some folks have, but in my relatively brief involvement with this fine organization, I have seen an interesting phenomenon...
by Christine | Aug 15, 2013 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music is special. We all know that. It is distinct from other forms of music but at the same time, it is a unique blending of many of those other forms of music. Blues, Old Time, Country and Gospel music had to exist before Bluegrass could ever hit the air...
by Christine | Jul 18, 2018 | Welcome Column
In business, there’s a saying that “failing to plan is planning to fail”. In baseball, the most successful hitters approach the at-bat with a plan, based upon the situation. On the other hand, an American president brags about going into a high-level meeting with...
by Christine | Jan 8, 2012 | Welcome Column
“Got Milk?” You all know the slogan by now. A number of years has passed since the launch of that classic advertising campaign. I vividly remember the very first spot I saw on TV for “Got Milk?”. An obsessed and possibly deranged individual is...
by Christine | Sep 12, 2010 | Welcome Column
Rhythm. I sure wish I had it. When I hear the old Gershwin Brothers standard “I Got Rhythm”, it makes me want to cry. Ethel Merman may not have had the greatest voice ever, but when she sang “I got music. I got rhythm”, it was jumpy. Same for...
