The Foxfire series of books was compiled from what was originally a magazine called Foxfire . A fellow named Eliot Wigginton started it with his 9th and 10th grade English classes in 1966 in the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia at the consolidated Rabun County… Read More
I’ve been continuing to immerse myself in old time music, listening to about as many clawhammer banjo and fiddle tunes as I can. Here’s a Daily Dose of Little Liza Jane… Let’s start with The Black & Tan String Band and then move on to… Read More
I’ve had some requests to post a video here of me playing the oil can banjo. This is a bit of a problem for me. The first problem is that I’m a duffer. I’ve only been hammering away at this machine for a month. The… Read More
This afternoon, I drove up to Cookstown Ontario, about a 45 minute drive north of 27th Street to meet Dena Lee and visit her shop, the Story Gourd Workshop. I’ve wanted to do this for some time since I found out she was making gourd… Read More
Tuffy and I have started a blog to feature our mosaics. It’s called Long Branch Mosaics. As we work up new projects, we’re going to document them over there. I’ll point to it from time to time, if you don’t mind.
I decided to create a Pinterest board for the mosaics Tuffy P and I do. At this point we’ve made several of them, mostly birds, and I wanted to group some photos in one spot in case anybody wanted to see the work. Until we… Read More
To celebrate Tuffy’s birthday we enjoyed dinner at Longrain Pan Asian, a neighbourhood place here in Long Branch that we’ve visited a couple times. We like to support the local businesses and tonight the Lakeshore was pretty snowy and slippery so we didn’t want to… Read More
There seems to be various old time tunes called Cold Frosty Morning or Frosty Morning or Frosty Morn or some variation. In Toronto this morning it was so cold my thoughts were freezing as they bubbled out of my brain. It was the kind of… Read More
My friend Barb, who among other things blogs as Bad Tempered Zombie, introduced me to the recording Flirting with Mermaids by Manitoba Hal. She did this in the best possible way – she mailed me the CD! Barb knows I like all kinds of roots… Read More
Delia was a gamblin’ girl She gambled all around. Delia was a gamblin girl She laid her money down. All the friends I ever had are gone. I’m not sure what I was thinking back in 1993 when I named that pudgy little kitten Delia… Read More
27th Street 