The 27th Street Podcast is back after a brief hiatus. This episode features my conversation with Mike Chew in the Dogwood Banjo workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was in the Twin Cities to pick up Dogwood Banjos # 52, which Mike made for me. I… Read More
We’ve been watching London Spy, the British/American production which aired as a 5-part series in early winter of 2015. It was slow, sometimes excruciatingly, it was smart, clever, fascinating, dark, and did I mention slow? I think it was an excellent bit of work, although… Read More
There was a time I could drive much longer distances than I can today. I recall the time I drove out to the Sierras for a button accordion camp (with some fly fishing along the way). That trip I drove as far as Omaha on… Read More
I fly fished a stretch of Timber Coulee in the Driftless which had a cliff along the far shore. One spot featured this spring emerging from the cliff. You can see the water dripping into the stream in the photo below.
This is not a really deep run but the trout like the deep cover. Some really good trout were rising right back into the brush.
There are a tremendous number of fly fishing opportunities in the Driftless area. I decided to focus on the Viroqua Wisconsin area, and I ended up spending all my time on one system. I fished Rullands Coulee, Timber Coulee and Spring Coulee – and even… Read More
While in Chicago, I visited the Old Town School of Folk Music with my pal Candy, who works there. She toured me around, and then we popped across the street for dinner at Mash. That’s bbq brisket in the photo, with mac ‘n’ cheese, corn… Read More
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