Went to Malabar Farm (home of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, novelist, screenwriter, and conservationist Louis Bromfield). It's also where Bogart and Bacall were married in a small ceremony on May 21, 1945.
Then we went to the Friday sessions of the 20th annual Mohican Bluegrass Festival. Our favorite banjo player, Robert Montgomery (entertaining videos on YouTube), was performing with David Davis and the Warrior River Boys.
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| David Davis & the Warrior River Boys |
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| Northwest Territory |
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| Nora Jane Struthers |
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| David Davis & the Warrior River Boys |
Fortunately, not too much gospel this time, which brings me to one of my pet peeves, the vehement insistence by some that a banjo and fiddle accompaniment makes a gospel song bluegrass, I beg to differ! That's just an excuse for those "good ol' boys" to wear their religion out on their sleeves, try to proselytize and get y'all down to their next prayer meetin'... Far as I'm concerned, gospels need to be saved for the church and prayer meetin's, 'cause it aint bluegrass, which for the most part comes from the Celtic roots in Appalachia, from jigs, reels, and clogging music that (mainly) the Irish immigrants brought to the mountains with them during and after the great Potato Famine. Yes, I know there have been a lot of other influences since then, but gospels? Come on, really? Gospels are bluegrass? Give me a break! Let me direct your attention to the link on the right side of this page to the "Freedom From Religion Foundation." Let's keep religion in the churches and out of politics and out of the class rooms, not to mention bluegrass concerts...;-)~
Speaking of politics...
No, I don't expect the politicians to fix anything, other than their own vested interests... Until we as a society demand good wages for good American jobs (manufacturing and service), and are willing to also pay the higher prices that those good paying jobs will demand, we are all part of the problem. And certainly there's little political will to fix the problem in the current (or for that matter, any) Congress filled with professional politicians.
The current state in this country is actually one of de facto slavery. But Slavery was always a boon to the landed, the merchant class, and later, the industrialists. Doesn't matter what name that feudalism took, or which part of the world fostered it, serfdom, imperialism, capitalism, communism, socialism. From King Tut and his ancestors to the Roman empire, to King David, to the Christian Popes, to Genghis Khan, to King John and the British empire, to ... Jefferson Davis, all the way down to John Boehner, slavery has always been the cheapest way to produce goods and services. Unfortunately, to actually pay free men/women a living wage dampens our overlords profits to the point of psychological depression for them. Better that we, the slaves/poor/middle class, die of disease, famine, and exposure... reduce the population and give those who need the least more of everything, since none of us deserves anything but their leavings. But they just don't seem to get it, that when their gluttonous dreams are realized, there won't be enough dupes left to purchase those slavery produced goods and services... Oh well...
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And be on thy guard against the good and the just! They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones.--Friedrich Nietzsche
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!--Friedrich Nietzsche
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