by Christine | Mar 18, 2004 | Welcome Column
I first became aware of my need to own a buffalo as a very indirect result of a silly little argument with my wife, Lynn. We were having lunch at the Hong Kong Café on Main Street in Sonora and we both ordered chow mien with egg foo young. When our lunches came, my...
by Christine | Dec 4, 2016 | Welcome Column
It happened again this last week. Pay no attention to that man behind the green curtain! One small request was granted by the “webmaster.” I can only assume that the regular traffic on this site has decreased some. At least the activity on the message board has slowed...
by Christine | Nov 4, 2019 | Welcome Column
Orange is a color and also a fruit and so is persimmon, but purple is just plain purple, and as the late Roger Miller discovered, doesn’t even have a rhyming word.Thanks to the Crayola® Company the names of many household items and foods have been given...
by Christine | Feb 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–Bruce Long, our first Sunday guy, is a little under the weather so we’re hearing from one of our tried and true veterans.) Last month at the campout in Turlock, we brought along our young cat Vern, who was suffering from what turned...
by Christine | May 5, 2011 | Welcome Column
Last month at the campout in Turlock, we brought along our young cat Vern, who was suffering from what turned out to be an incurable illness. That illness claimed his life last Monday, but we’ll always have fond memories and photos of Vern enjoying a bluegrass jam...
by Christine | Dec 19, 2019 | Welcome Column
Back in the 1980s there was a running joke in the magazine of the Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association (MBOTMA). Musicians would be asked “What do you keep in your instrument case, as well as your instrument?” I may be an unduly suspicious...
by Christine | Nov 20, 2016 | Welcome Column
There I was, sitting in one of the Nashville Mellow Mushroom pizzerias after spending 3 days totally geeking out on everything Dobro. Yep, for the dobro heads reading this I am reporting as a student from the aftermath of that annual apocalyptic event called...
by Christine | Jan 31, 2018 | Welcome Column
Introduction To PoetryI ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the light like a color slideor press an ear against its hive.I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out,or walk inside the poem’s roomand feel the walls for a light switch.I want...
by Christine | May 13, 2013 | Welcome Column
Some people give Milton Harkey and Doyle Lawson credit for creating the “family friendly” bluegrass festival out of the chaos of festivals in the 1970’s. As nearly as I can tell, the first recognizable multi-day bluegrass festival held in Fincastle, VA over...
by Christine | Sep 20, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editors Note: Dave’s Welcome from back in 2017. RC)Deadlines are tough when you are the road. I thought this five week month was going to be a piece of cake for putting together my Welcome column but here I am on Labor Day working on a deadline. I have...
