Wednesday, August 28, 2013
We stopped to visit in Idaho friend now living in West Virginia
Day 3 clifftop 2013
The picture from the Overlook shows the natural view from the top it's actually pretty high. The banjo player sitting down on the ground looking at me is Don blagsfedt. the banjo player laughing is Dan Gellert at A party hosted by Judy and Dean who live in Atlanta and Dean makes Banjos. We first met judy and Dean in a jam session in Delonaga Georgia at bear on the square back in April and we have kept in touch. There were parties like this everyday usually several of them with snacks to eat and CDs to buy or instruments to buy and lots of people playing tunes for an hour or two. The little black Schipperke belongs to moonshine she gently includes him in the celebration whenever possible he is ill and needs the help to move around. It turns out that I have been following moonshines YouTube videos for several years and we finally got to meet her and the Schipperke. I will include several of her YouTube videos on our blog because she follows in many of the circles we follow in
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Clifftop Saturday
Convenient Walmart to out fit us for the week long cliftop then driving in finding our camp at saturday mid day removing the solar panel and watching the cars rollin the station wagon is a fairly typical probably slightly older representative of the cliff top participant. I'm writing this Wednesday morning so far the clifftop type has panda out to be much less a troublesome cliff top down in the bottom and even more fun clifftop at camp and the surrounding ground the overall feeling is just one of Joy everywhere I look tons of people engaging great friendship and sharing great music it is a way cool experience
Goodby Elkins
We had stayed in Elkins West Virginia participating in the Augusta music dances for 3 weeks this was the final day. Janice , Martha's sister drove down from Pittsburgh to visit for our final day you can see Janice in one balcony picture in the Big Mansion it is called Graceland and it is a hotel on the Elkins campus the ladies playing cards get together twice a week 2 play bridge in this beautiful hotel. The mandolin and case were made by Mr Kelly a man that I played music with in the Wednesday night jam in the park great old time tunes great old stories.
Strolling around Elkins WV
The instruments were on sale out on the veranda of the main building at Elkins the ladies in the distance around the card tables are playing bridge in the Graceland mansion on the Elkins campus the mandolin and case are handmade by Mr Kelly an 85 year olds music legend in the Elkins area martha is displaying a prize beret representing the ice house which is the coolest tavern she has been able to frequent on the Elkins campus the parade was made from and Ice House t shirt and it was on sale at the Celtic week silent auction Martha didn't buy the beret but she bought to really cool pairs of Italian dancing shoes
Clifftop day 1
Clifftop is an old time string band festival held at the Washington Carver State Park in the southern part of West Virginia we started out the day stocking up at Walmart for the eight day festival we were able to find nice camp spot in the Sun and set out our solar panel. you can see the rain fly set up which we needed desperately for at least five of the eight days.