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Thanks for your suggestions, hamilton and bokonon! I'll definitely have to check those out! I really enjoyed the other two by him..

And just because it's springtime, the flowers are in bloom, and I'm feeling quite dreamy, I just finished reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.. (for about the 50th time in my life! Ha..)

These stories never get old to me, and I love letting my imagination run wild while reading these stories..

Anyone else love these adventures as much as me??

Wonderland is REAL!

Right on!

My parents in Kentucky said they felt it.. Nothing here in NC, though..

Nice!

When are you getting down here, Amy? Are you going to stay in the area a bit before or after the fest?

We have to meet up most definitely!

Hahaha...

Just finished Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons.. I enjoyed this one a lot! This was a collection of some of Vonnegut's short stories, speeches, reviews, interviews, etc..

I really like the way he writes, humor with a bit of sadness to it.. It's really unexplainable until you read his work..

bokonon, which of his other books would you recommend me to read next??

Hey bokonon, I think we're the only 2 that read BOOKS on here..

And I think I know where you got your username.. I just finished reading Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Cat's Cradle, and I loved it!

It was both hilarious and insightful..

Another kudos to my dad for giving me yet another amazing book from his collection.. I'm ready to start another book by Vonnegut: Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons!

HUGE lineup! I'm getting excited!!

Susana & Timmy Abell [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The Alberti Flea Circus [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The Avett Brothers [Friday]

Banknotes [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Buffalo Barfield [Friday, Saturday]

Bearfoot [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Blue Highway [Thursday, Friday]

Roy Book Binder [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Laura Boosinger [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Alison Brown Quartet with Joe Craven [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Sam Bush [Friday, Saturday]

The Captain’s Crew [sunday]

Bob Carlin & Cheick Hamala Diabate [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The Carolina Chocolate Drops [Friday, Saturday]

The Circuit Riders [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

T Michael Coleman [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The John Cowan Band [Friday, Saturday]

Donna The Buffalo [Friday, Saturday]

Robert Dotson [Friday, Saturday]

Jerry Douglas [sunday]

Mike Dowling [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Ruthie Foster [Friday, Saturday]

Terry Garland [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Buddy Greene [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Mitch Greenhill [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

George Hamilton IV [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

George Hamilton V [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road with Special Guests [saturday]

Bob Hill [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Tish Hinojosa [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Willette Hinton & Family [saturday]

David Holt [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Hot Buttered Rum [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Clint Howard Band [sunday]

Sierra Hull & Highway 111 [Friday, Saturday]

The Infamous Stringdusters [Thursday, Friday]

The InterACTive Theater of Jef [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Phil Jamison [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Carl and Kelli Jones [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Jorma Kaukonen [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The Key City Boys [Thursday, Friday]

Jim Lauderdale [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Jack Lawrence [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands [Thursday, Friday, Saturday]

Mark Lippard [saturday]

Jeff Little [saturday, Sunday]

The Local Boys [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The Lovell Sisters [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The Claire Lynch Band [saturday, Sunday]

Bill Mathis [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Andy May [Friday, Saturday]

Tift Merritt [saturday]

Cliff Miller [Friday, Saturday]

Nashville Bluegrass Band [saturday, Sunday]

Tim O'Brien [Friday, Saturday]

Ollabelle [saturday]

Old Crow Medicine Show [Thursday]

Paul Oscher [saturday]

The Pine Leaf Boys [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Polecat Creek [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Missy Raines [saturday]

Tony Rice [Friday, Saturday]

Peter Rowan [Friday, Saturday]

Tom Sauber [Friday, Saturday]

Scythian [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Shana Banana [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

ShoeFly [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand [Thursday, Friday]

Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby with Kentucky Thunder [saturday]

Joe Smothers [Friday, Saturday]

Solas "Reunion" with Karan Casey & John Doyle [sunday]

Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mtn Boys [Friday]

Rafe Stefanini & Clelia Stefanini [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives [Thursday]

Rodney Sutton [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Tut Taylor [Thursday, Friday, Saturday]

Joe Thompson [Friday]

Happy Traum [Friday, Saturday]

Future Traditions [saturday]

Dan Tyminski Band [sunday]

Sally Van Meter [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage [saturday]

Bil VornDick [Friday, Saturday]

The Waifs [Thursday, Friday]

Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck, Casey Driessen & Ben Sollee [sunday]

Doc Watson [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Richard Watson [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The Waybacks [Friday, Saturday]

Charles Welch [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Pete Wernick & Flexigrass [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Whitetop Mountain Band [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

The Wilders [Thursday, Friday, Saturday]

Wilkes Acoustic Folk Society [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday]

Tony Williamson [Friday, Saturday]

Have a GRATE one!

Hope to see you at Gratefulfest again!

One day about 25 years from now

When we've all grown cold from wondering how

Oh, we'll all sit down at the city dump

And talk about the Goodle days

Oh, you'll pass a joint and I'll pass the wine

And anything good from down the line

Alot of good things went down one time

Back in the Goodle days

And the good old days are past and gone

Alot of good people have done gone on

That's my life when I sing this song about

Back in the Goodle days

Sometimes I like to think that we're almost done

And there ain't nothing left we can figure out

And I guess it must have seemed alot more like that

Back in the Goodle days

But when you gotta go, you gotta go

There's always somebody don't you know

Hangin' round sayin' "Well, I told you so"

Back in the Goodle days

Oh we'll all join hands and we'll gather round

When that old guitar starts to make that sound

Alot of good things went down downtown

Back in the Goodle days

Squeezin' love with the people that we hadn't even met

Out for anything we could get

Oh we did it then and we'll do it yet

Back in the Goodle days

And the good old days are past and gone

Alot of good people have done gone on

That's my life when I sing this song about

Back in the Goodle days

Oh, we'll both be there, don't you worry!!

Can't wait to see ya!

Haha.. Ok.. Yes, I remember a lot of chairs there! But there was a line that they drew on the ground so that any chair in front of it had to be one of those low to the ground chairs. The dancing seemed to be right behind that line, but nobody seemed to care!

Sorry, just reminiscing about that awesome fest..

BTW Schwa, lots of bluegrass here in Asheville, so get your ass down here!

Is that Telluride Bluegrass festival??

I was there 3 years in a row (a few years back), and yes, lots of lawnchairs.. But lots of dancing, too!!

That may very well be the most beautiful place for a Bluegrass festival!! Always a friggin great line-up as well!

So I'm resurfacing this thread..

I just finished reading Abbie Hoffman's Woodstock Nation.. What a funny and interesting book!! I knew a bit about him, but I never read anything he had written until now (I found the book in my dad's collection awhile ago, but just got around to reading it..)

The book was published in October 1969, just a few months after Woodstock, and he talks about his time there and also all about his arrests that year, including his famous arrest with the Chicago Eight (which turned into the Chicago Seven at the trial, but when the book was written it was still 8..)

He was quite a crazy and brilliant guy, very interesting!

A very energetic guy, and "I suppose all this energy results from being an anarchist, Jewish, bottle-fed, stubborn, beautiful, white, spoiled brat, dedicated, male, young, old, optimistic, Sagittarius, schmuck, revolutionist, communist, god, self-destructive, egotistical, horny, show-off, paranoid-schitzophrenic, naive, fucked-up, big-mouth, not serious, brilliant, honest Yippie leader and non-leader and a whole lot more from Concord, Mass., and the Bronx, New York.* (*Each descriptive phrase appeared in somebody's review of me [Abbie]. I wonder what critics see when they get up in the morning and look in the mirror.)"

That's a quote from the book..

I look forward to reading more of his writing..

... sing like bobby. too fun.

Does he spit when he sings? That's key...

That's just awesome!!

I love the lead singer's shoes..

Helplessly hoping

Her harlequin hovers nearby

Awaiting a word

Gasping at glimpses

Of gentle true spirit

He runs, wishing he could fly

Only to trip at the sound of good-bye

Wordlessly watching

He waits by the window

And wonders

At the empty place inside

Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams

He worries

Did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?

They are one person

They are two alone

They are three together

They are for each other

Stand by the stairway

You'll see something

Certain to tell you confusion has its cost

Love isn't lying

It's loose in a lady who lingers

Saying she is lost

And choking on hello

They are one person

They are two alone

They are three together

They are for each other

It's an amazing spring day here today!!

It's sunny and 67 F (I think that's around 18-20 C ?) I should be inside unpacking and all that stuff, but I'm finding it hard to be inside when it's so beautiful outside!

Awesome!!

Yes, Schwa, there is something irresistable about Canadian men to us American gals.. Just carry around a Canadian flag and you'll be sure to bag a wife!

Can't wait to see ya there!

Have a great one!!

Happy birthday!

Woooooooo Hoooooooooooo!

So we arrived a few days ago, and we both couldn't be happier! We have an awesome little spot that we're getting set up, and we're ready for some hard core exploring!

Thanks for the kind words, y'all, and I hope that we all will cross paths soon!

I can't wait for some of ya to visit us and fall in love with this magical place!

This is the view from our back porch:

Heady!

On Sirius GD channel..

Springfield Civic Center on May 11, 1978

Cold Rain & Snow, Beat It On Down The Line, Friend Of The Devil, Looks Like Rain, Loser, Mexicali Blues-> Mama Tried, Tennessee Jed, Minglewood Blues, Peggy-O, Lazy Lightning->Supplication

Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain, Dancin' In The Streets-> Drums-> Not Fade Away-> Stella Blue-> Around & Around;

E: Werewolves of London, Johnny B. Goode

So sorry..

Sounds like he had a very good and fulfilling life.. Keep your head up and know that he will always be alive in your heart..