From Gene’s Notebook …in a parking lot, just north of the river, the river where “The Wall” is being built, I step between two couples, one English Canadian from Ontario, via Australia 40 years ago, and a French Canadian couple from Quebec, all enamored with the Lower Valley’s warmth and birds and colors …. …and [...]

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by Stan Raines I woke up at five-thirty this morning with an incredible back ache. Last night I’d ended up moving a PA system and its appurtenances four times, twice into the car and twice out, plus set up and tear down. I probably ought to get used to it. I had a blast. Joel [...]

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From Gene’s Notebook …foggy, and there is a knock on the front door. “Want to buy an Elvis carpet? Everyone needs one. And by the way, do not leave a purse so close to the door.” I don’t want a carpet, and off he goes, into the fog and streetlight yellow. I see him 15 [...]

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From Gene’s Notebook …excitement, and with under two weeks until The Inauguration, and people who never talk politics are stopping me, “Soon, Obama!” they say …and my mind turns away, momentarily, to the solar eclipse in central Mexico the summer of 1991, the anticipation, waiting for the darkness, the confused roosters and hens, and then [...]

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