I know this has been silent for a while while the knitting side of the project has been cooking, but some news just came across the wire (Thank you, Tara) that I felt was important enough to share.
This past weekend, Rita Forrester, director of the Carter Fold in Hiltons, VA (see previous entry) had a [...]
if there’s one thing that sets A. P. apart from his contemporaries, it’s that he was, at the seeming heart, an ethnomusicographer, before there even was such a thing.
This is an audio entry with an interview with…well, okay, the title of the post kind of gives away the surprise, doesn’t it?
A few notes of note:
The Dixie Bee-Liners’ website is at http://dixiebeeliners.com.
You can get their albums here:
(Ripe, 2008. The one with the Crooked Road song on it that inspired this particular project.)
and, to keep [...]
It’s taking me a little longer to edit the pictures from the weekend than I thought it would, and since I have to turn around today and head back to Virginia to interview some of the Dixie Bee-Liners (Rachel knits!), I don’t want to rush through the storytelling just to get the rest of Saturday’s [...]
Are you washed in the blood,
in the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless,
Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Red Allen, “The Blood of the Lamb”, 1964
(based on the 1878 hymn of redemption by Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman)
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Back in April, when the Mountain Sole Project first [...]
I have so many stories about tonight. But it’s one a.m., and I’m exhausted beyond the point of words.
Tonight ended at The Carter Family Fold. (seen above)
Tomorrow, I’ll find the words. For now, I’m going to sleep, and hold close the new friends I’ve made, the old ones who make my life rich, and the [...]
They call it “the stoplight” up in Floyd County.
The reason they call it The Stoplight in Floyd County is because that…? That stoplight you see right there?
It’s the only one in the entire county.
You can be several towns away, I found, and ask directions to anywhere in the town of Floyd, and they will give [...]
I’m a big fan of planning. I’m one of those annoyingly organized people about it, too — lists and checklists and maps and itineraries with estimated times for things. In the fifties, I’d have been that Road Trip Mom that allows fourteen-point-six minutes at the Grand Canyon, which is just enough time to take the [...]
I so hate it when people post test posts.
But this is kind of a test post. A test of the emergency blogcasting system, so to speak. Were this a real blog post, the tone you just heard would have been followed by useful and/or entertaining content.
I’m also testing this:
Which is audio content (also a test, [...]
