by Christine | Feb 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
Like a lot of folks, I have spent considerable time during the pandemic sheltered in place, and passing the time without going nuts involves a considerable amount of reading – and watching TV. I have read a lot of good books and immersed myself in movies and...
by Christine | Dec 26, 2020 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–No, yer not seeing things. Maggie’s column about the Orange Blossom Special DID run Christmas day. But it was so derned good, the consensus around here was that it should stay up another day. If you were out Christmasing yesterday and...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note: with baseball season approaching, here’s an old one from Raymond Gorman) Just a few cool days ago, I had the privilege of one of the best seats in an Arizona ballpark to share some time with the 2017 Chicago White Sox as they readied for a new year in...
by Christine | Feb 4, 2021 | Welcome Column
I’m developing a business plan to finally capitalize on this dang pandemic. It won’t rival Amazon, UPS, Door Dash, Uber Eats, etc, but will provide some strong stimulus for me and a few of my friends. My plan is targeted at a niche market and by design it will only...
by Christine | Feb 26, 2021 | Welcome Column
We are nearly a year into quarantine, lockdown, boredom, overwork… whatever this era is to you, and whatever you want to call it. How are you documenting this time? Are you documenting this experience for future generations? After my father’s death a year ago, while...
by Christine | Feb 25, 2021 | Welcome Column
Would Napoleon Bonaparte have liked Bluegrass? This is an interesting question. I think he probably would have. Sure, the music would have been more than a hundred years more “advanced” than what he was used to but likely the French emperor would have been familiar...
by Christine | Feb 5, 2021 | Welcome Column
A golden oldie from February 2018 The third rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority… The second rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority… The first rate mind is only happy when it is thinking…. Milne...
by Christine | Feb 24, 2021 | Welcome Column
One of the very best things about bluegrass is jamming, right? Nothing presents a quintessential picture of a bluegrass festival like folks hanging around in lawn chairs picking in the shade, voices joined in joyous harmony. But for some folks, jamming is stressful....
by Christine | Dec 24, 2020 | Welcome Column
I’m very sad to report that the CBA Board has made the tough call to cancel the 2021 Father’s Day Festival in Grass Valley. After 44 uninterrupted years – from 1975 through 2019 – it is a huge disappointment to extend our hiatus for a second straight year. Naturally,...
by Christine | Feb 23, 2021 | Welcome Column
“I have given up the pursuit of perfection; I shall instead just seek to have both my shoes tied at the same time.” – Charles Brady to his daughter, Kate. I used to think that it was the job of the writer to seek perfection in his or her task and to remain...
