by Christine | Sep 23, 2018 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass festivals and related activities cause memories, and the intensity varies depending on your blood-to-coffee ratio. Memories have such a way of being…let me search for the right word here. Memorable. Many are fond memories, like the first time we hitch...
by Christine | Dec 22, 2019 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S COMMENT: It’s been nearly three years now since Nancy retired from her Welcome writing chores. I’ve missed her pithy, always spot on columns. Here’s one of my favorites from back in early ’17. RC)This coming Sunday, I’m...
by Christine | Jan 27, 2015 | Welcome Column
(It’s hard to believe it’s been this many years since Nancy retired from her Welcome columnist job. Here’s one of her pieces from 2010. As always, a fun read with a point worth making.) This coming Sunday, I’m looking forward to a visit with one of the greatest...
by Christine | Sep 2, 2010 | Welcome Column
This coming Sunday, I’m looking forward to a visit with one of the greatest people I’ve ever been privileged to know. Flossie Lewis was my English teacher during my sophomore year at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco. As the classic nerd, I...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2016 | Welcome Column
I went on to facebook Wednesday after work and that’s how I found out that Merle Haggard had died. My friend Armando Garcia had posted about seven videos playing pieces of his songs and reading the news of his demise. It hit me hard. It surprised me, really, that it...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2007 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Once again we bring you a recollection from that master recollector, J.D. Rhynes. Does he make this stuff up? Are the stories true or are the stories figments of his fertile imagination? Since they’re always good ones, guess it doesn’t really matter.)...
by Christine | Dec 25, 2019 | Welcome Column
From all of us to all of us.
by Christine | Dec 25, 2013 | Welcome Column
How lucky am I, that I have the Wednesday column and Christmas just happens to fall on a Wednesday this year? I reckon this column will be read by even fewer people that mid-week-of-Father’s-Day Festival column. If you are reading this, I have two things to say: 1)...
by Christine | Jun 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
Still enjoying that post-Father’s Day Festival glow. It means so much to participate in this even year after year, and from what I could see, this was a good year. I assume most of you are still glowing, to some degree. May I impose on your glow to strongly suggest...
by Christine | Sep 8, 2009 | Welcome Column
VOTE: You will be receiving your ballots in the Bluegrass Breakdown and you may also vote on line . I am writing this before the deadline for Candidates to throw their hat into the ring so do not yet know how large the field will be. Make certain you renew your...
