by Christine | Sep 3, 2011 | Welcome Column
They say you win some and you lose some. August was something like that for me, although the winner was a big one and the loser a minor disappointment, in the grand scheme of things. Winner: The Summergrass festival in Vista (San Diego area). In years past, I had a...
by Christine | Feb 2, 2017 | Welcome Column
Hey the good news is that the dreaded drought has been at least temporarily beaten into submission. Other than that, it hasn’t been a great winter for me. Supposedly, I come from hardy stock. I grew up in a place where early on I learned the meaning of the term...
by Christine | Nov 14, 2012 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—This morning Bruce sent a panicky email to the cbaontheweb.org Towers explaining that he’d written his regular Wednesday morning Welcome but had forgotten it at home and was not in his office. (Contemporary variation on dog eating homework.) He asked...
by Christine | Jan 2, 2018 | Welcome Column
Since the Bluegrass festival season is winding down, and the weather’s cooling off, it seems like this is the time to prepare our musical instruments for the cold off-season. For hints and tips on this process, I consulted with Martha Stewart, who introduced me to...
by Christine | Feb 4, 2018 | Welcome Column
Since the Bluegrass festival season is winding down, and the weather’s cooling off, it seems like this is the time to prepare our musical instruments for the cold off-season. For hints and tips on this process, I consulted with Martha Stewart, who introduced me to...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2010 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Bruce Campbell, the rat, is bobbing on a luxury liner somewhere in the tropics this morning. What better of his Welcomes to resurrect than a piece on winterizing instruments. We have it on good authority that our friend will be back here shivering by...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2006 | Welcome Column
Since the Bluegrass festival season is winding down, and the weather’s cooling off, it seems like this is the time to prepare our musical instruments for the cold off-season. For hints and tips on this process, I consulted with Martha Stewart, who introduced me to...
by Christine | Nov 22, 2009 | Welcome Column
This Thursday most of us will be celebrating Thanksgiving. I think it’s great to set a special day aside for this observance but even more important to try to find something each day to be thankful for. Along those lines, I am thankful for all my CBA friends and all...
by Christine | Jul 4, 2010 | Welcome Column
His mouth was dry. His heart beat so hard that the young Massachusetts’s man was sure that those crouching at his elbows behind the earthen works could hear it and think him cowardly. Was anyone else as terrified? To the young militia man’s left was the Mystic River....
by Christine | Aug 19, 2009 | Welcome Column
It was forty years ago this month ? the legendary Woodstock festival. It was possibly the most iconic event in American history in the 20th century. Like any major event, especially after nearly half a century, there?s a ton of mythology surrounding the event, and...
