The TillersThe folk festival is over and I’m crawling out of my music, sun and beer-induced haze to report on the proceedings this Monday. As I wrote before, the Ohio River Valley Folk Festival takes place every May here in Madison, on the banks of … [Read more...]
6th Annual Ohio Rivery Valley Folk Festival: Day One
May 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Just a quick post before I head down to participate in a musicians' workshop with The Tillers … [Read more...]
Blog In Place Hop: The big event
May 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This weekend in Madison is the 6th Annual Ohio River Valley Folk Festival. Around here, we just call it the folk festival. The folk festival has been going on as long as I’ve been in Madison, and we’ve been in town for about the same amount of … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University
May 17, 2011 By 7 Comments
I remember hearing about the death of Reverend Jerry Falwell back in 2007. I can’t say I felt much sadness at his passing, but I don’t remember feeling much glee, either. Kevin Roose, the son of liberal, Quaker parents and nephew to a lesbian … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Our lovely library
May 16, 2011 By 8 Comments
One of the very first posts I wrote on this blog was about rediscovering libraries and reading, so it feels kind of like coming full circle to be writing about our local library again. Much of what I have to say, I said in that original post, only, … [Read more...]
The Sunday Salon: A week without reading
May 15, 2011 By 6 Comments
An odd title for a post on a blog that’s mostly about books. This week, I did finish a book about fiddling, which I reviewed on Tuesday. I don’t know about the rest of you out there, but as the temperature rises, and the world gets greener, I find … [Read more...]
Book Review: Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings and 8,000 Miles of Music
May 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
In my never-ending quest for learning more about the fiddle and old-time music, I found Fiddle, by Vivian Wagner. Looking at various fiddle players on youtube, partially in order to figure what I was doing wrong with my bowing, I found a video of … [Read more...]
Blog In Place Blog Hop: A good place to get lost
May 8, 2011 By 4 Comments
In addition to being Mother’s Day on Sunday, this weekend in our part of the country was Derby weekend. The Kentucky Derby is known as the greatest two minutes in sports, or at least, that was the title of the paper I wrote about the history of the … [Read more...]
Lost in horse country: Blog In Place hop (cont.)
May 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This week’s question from Blog In Place is, where’s the best place you’ve ever been lost? So, continuing my story of getting lost between Louisivlle and Madison on Kentucky Derby weekend....We had exited the backed up interstate to find a road that … [Read more...]
Saturday Snapshot: A ‘mater for my mater
May 7, 2011 By 6 Comments
I promised Jennifer at Books, Personally that I would post a picture of my amigurumi tomato, so here it is in all its splendor. After I finally got past the 4 stitch cast on with douple-pointed needles, it was a breeze. My mom's a farmer, gardener, … [Read more...]
