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The Woodsmen’s Festival

Timber-Felling Competition Originally uploaded by kenf225 The gig yesterday at the Woodsmen’s Festival was great fun. The day started off with a vicious thunderstorm and torrential rain, but cleared into a near-perfect day by the time we did the sound … Continue reading

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Lunch in Philipsburg, PA

Philipsburg was the western edge of our coverage area when I worked for the Centre Daily Times in State College. (I started that job almost exactly 20 years ago.) It’s got a pretty, but faded, downtown, where I’m eating at … Continue reading

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Protected: Bye For Now, or, Why I Quit My Job

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Too Much Chocolate

I’m in Hershey, PA, for a conference, and am astonished to find that there is a such thing as Too Much Chocolate. You smell it everywhere. The streetlights are shaped like Hershey’s Kisses. You get a chocolate bar when you … Continue reading

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Protected: The 1,200-mile week

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Florida Trip

I always have mixed feelings about going to conferences in beautiful places, since you spend most of your time sitting indoors under fluorescent lighting and may as well be in New Jersey. But Florida fortunately wasn’t all work; the highlight … Continue reading

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A week in California

My job took me out to the west coast last week, starting off in San Diego and finishing up in Silicon Valley, with the weekend between to drive up the coast. I’ve driven the Pacific Coast Highway once before, in … Continue reading

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Niagara Falls

I’ll post more about the show in Toronto when some of the pictures, sound and video start coming in (I think this may be the best-documented show Mike and I have ever played) but in the meantime, I’m posting some … Continue reading

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Tucson Trip: Part III, Rodeo

On Friday we went to La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, the Tucson Rodeo. I’ve never been to a rodeo before and I have to say, aside from some qualms about animal cruelty, it was much more impressive than I thought … Continue reading

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Tucson Trip: Part II, Buildings

One afternoon I took a drive through South Tucson, a smaller and largely Hispanic municipality located entirely inside the city of Tucson. Some great old signs and buildings.

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