by Christine | Dec 2, 2014 | Welcome Column
How far would you go to make your host or hostess feel comfortable, that is, not embarrassed, by a his or her culinary lapse or anomaly? Let’s say you are having dinner with your sweet mother, or your dear auntie, and she has served your favorite—meatloaf topped with...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2010 | Welcome Column
How far would you go to make your host or hostess feel comfortable, that is, not embarrassed, by a his or her culinary lapse or anomaly? Let’s say you are having dinner with your sweet mother, or your dear auntie, and she has served your favorite—meatloaf topped with...
by Christine | Mar 29, 2014 | Welcome Column
Editor’s note: It’s been our practice over the years that, in early spring, as we move toward the CBAs largest, oldest, and best-known event – – the Father’s Day Festival at grass Valley – – we bring back welcome columns that give a flavor of that...
by Christine | Jan 2, 2007 | Welcome Column
1986: Our twentieth year class reunion was coming up and after a long absence of seven years my oldest and dearest friend, Rick Cornish, calls me on the phone. It seems Rick has been keeping himself busy since the last time we talked in 1979. He is in a bluegrass...
by Christine | Mar 30, 2014 | Welcome Column
Mud fest 1995 20th anniversary was the seventh and last Father’s Day festival my father and I enjoyed together. He died the day after Thanksgiving in 1995.I was having a hard time coming to grips with his death. I submitted a story to the CBA in May of 1996...
by Christine | Jan 4, 2006 | Welcome Column
Mud fest 1995 20th anniversary was the seventh and last Father’s Day festival my father and I enjoyed together. He died the day after Thanksgiving in 1995.I was having a hard time coming to grips with his death. I submitted a story to the CBA in May of 1996...
by Christine | Aug 29, 2015 | Welcome Column
Harrison Hamill, our young friend and fledgling banjo player, brought his friend into our camp at Grass Valley one day during the Father’s Day Festival in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. Harrison and his brother Finnegan received free admission to The Freight and...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2020 | Welcome Column
Sit down and get comfortable while I tell you how I came to love Lady Gaga. She entered my life a few years ago, and I just don’t know what I’m going to do about her.It all has to do with some major plans of my older granddaughter, beautiful of course, and how...
by Christine | Oct 30, 2011 | Welcome Column
I DIDN’T spend my summer playing the fiddle. At the Fathers Day Festival we had our annual Welcome Writers jam at my campsite after the main stage show ended on Thursday night. I’d been pretty sick wen I arrived on Sunday and just seemed to get worse all week. By...
by Christine | Aug 5, 2015 | Welcome Column
Thursday, July 16, 2015 I “discovered” bluegrass last year via my 14 year old son, Patrick. In 2014, he joined the kid’s Academy that Darby Brandli started, thanks to the encouragement of Bruce and Scott Thompson, my husband’s cousins. I got to watch my son and his...
