by Christine | Nov 20, 2007 | Welcome Column
Last Fathers Day my youngest son, Peter, presented me with a big, neatly gift wrapped box, bow on top, chalk full of East Indian cooking supplies. He knows I enjoy cooking Indian food and knows there are no Indian grocery stores up here in the hinterland, so young...
by Christine | Jul 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
I remember as a lad, getting up on Thanksgiving morning and watching the parade in New York City. The big floats, and those giant balloons, and oddball things like baton-twirling troupes and the like – it was quite a spectacle. Over the years, though, the parade...
by Christine | Apr 9, 2011 | Welcome Column
Paraprosdokian sentences are based on a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader (or listener) to reinterpret or re-frame the first part. Paraprosdokian is from the Greek meaning...
by Christine | Feb 9, 2018 | Welcome Column
Paraprosdokian sentences are based on a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader (or listener) to reinterpret or re-frame the first part. Paraprosdokian is from the Greek meaning...
by Christine | May 25, 2015 | Welcome Column
Driving up the I-5 to Parkfield, the drought conditions along the way were so evident. When we arrived on Wednesday, there were already a few campers set up along with many festival volunteers running around preparing for the festival on Thursday. There was also some...
by Christine | May 16, 2008 | Welcome Column
My dad used to have a saying. Ricky, he would say, when a fella’s got a new hammer, everything looks like a nail. At Parkfield I was the fella and my new I=Phone, with built in camera, was the hammer. Here are my Parkfield photos, with a little stream of consciousness...
by Christine | May 15, 2007 | Welcome Column
Parkfield is the most closely observed earthquake zone in the world. Scientists measure the strain in rocks, heat flow, and geomagnetism constantly around Parkfield. The Parkfield motto, which is plastered on signs, menus, flyers and newsletters, reads, “Eat...
by Christine | Dec 16, 2019 | Welcome Column
Despite what many would be led to believe due to the innate connection between Monroe and his mandolin, the true pillars of the bluegrass style are the fiddle and banjo, a combination that has been reported to occur since the mid-eighteenth century.The American...
by Christine | Feb 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
While there seems to be a genetic background that is able to trace back the musical contents of bluegrass such as the fiddle and banjo styles, as well as a societal background that places folk music and later country and bluegrass music with the audience and baggage...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
During the World War two era and up into the rise of Rock N Roll, Bluegrass’s reign as a top commercial genre was established. Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys became a smash hit on the Grand Ole Opry and were beginning to sell a large amount of records....
