Fine Art Billboard Contest 2022
Empty billboards like this may soon be sporting original art, courtesy of Fine Art America. The Ins and Outs For the month of August, the online art website, Fine Art America, is running a very...
View ArticleGentle On My Mind
John Hartford was equally at home playing the guitar and banjo as well as the fiddle. Dr. Zhivago Inspires In 1967, John Hartford recorded, Gentle On My Mind and released it as a very successful...
View ArticleGhost Riders In the Sky
Brief History Stan Jones was a Death Valley Park Ranger, who wrote Western songs on the side. Along with a few of his cohorts, numerous tunes under the label of Stan Jones and the Death Valley...
View ArticleWagon Wheel
Old Crow Medicine Show album cover from 2004 How One Man’s Chorus Launched Another Band Way back in 1973, Bob Dylan wrote a chorus for a song, but left the main verses blank. At the time, this...
View ArticleThe Left-handed Upside Down Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten
Who Was Elizabeth Cotton? Elizabeth Cotton was a North Carolina domestic, who had a great resurgence in her musical career after she turned 60. She was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1893...
View ArticleAt the Fair
This cat-like creature is state-of-the-art in the world of stuffed animals. Stuffed Creations No way around it, state fairs are a great place to check up on all the stuffed creations that are nowadays...
View ArticleA Get Well Card for Jimmy Buffet
Thanks to Jimmy we all know how to survive hot weather So Sad Dear Jimmy, So sad to hear that you are in the hospital and not feeling so well and had to cancel those concerts. Sure do hope you get...
View ArticleImages from the California Zephyr
Amtrak Viewing Cars are a great place to watch the scenery roll by My Journey Recently, I rode the California Zephyr from Salt Lake City to Denver. I made this journey out of necessity, but for those...
View ArticleSurfing and Golfing During a Bomb Cyclone
The iconic Lone Cypress on the shores of Pebble Beach did survive the recent storms, but not without losing a major limb. Surviving a Bomb Cyclone The recent torrential downpours in California are not...
View ArticleDivinity Students Support the Devils
The Duke University Chapel towers above the picturesque campus. An Unplanned Visit Yields a Marvelous Bonus I never intended to visit the Duke Chapel, situated almost dead center on the lovely,...
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