Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Sep 04 - 05:14 PM I don't know where I am. I live 45 minutes from Sacramento, on a ridge at an elevation of 2,300 feet, across Interstate 80 from the Canyon of the North Fork of the American River. My street address is Colfax, California - but I live 6 miles from the city of Colfax. I get my mail in Applegate, California, and the nearest supermarket is in Meadow Vista. And we're right next door to the Weimar Institute in Weimar, California. and most of our activities are in Auburn, California, 12 miles away. So, where am I? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: MadHamster Date: 29 Sep 04 - 03:26 PM I'm in Mira Mesa, an isolated suburb (at least 15 miles away from anything interesting) of that urban sprawl nightmare known as San Diego, CA. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Compton Date: 29 Sep 04 - 02:44 PM "Staffordshire Born, Staffordshire Bred, Strong in the arm and weak in the head" |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Chris Green Date: 29 Sep 04 - 02:36 PM In answer to the first question, Coventry UK. In the answer to the second, ANYWHERE!!! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: black walnut Date: 29 Sep 04 - 02:30 PM Tarana. Oh sorry. Toronto. ~b.w. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: GUEST,tarheel Date: 29 Sep 04 - 02:20 PM i am from Rural Hall ,North Carolina,just a few miles north of Winston-Salem,N.C..and,of course ,if you are from N.C.,you are a Tarheel!anyway,it's a great place to live here in the n.w.portion of piedmont north carolina. we are just about 5 miles from Pilot mtn.,n.c.,and you can drive right to the top of it(over 2000 high)in just a few minutes from our home! pilot mtn.,is a mountain and it's a town too!the town is located right across the highway 52, from the mountain!(it was called mount pilot,in the ole andy griffith shows). also i can be on top of the blue ridge parkway in about an hour from my home,so it's really God's Country,for sure! old salem,bathabara,and bethania are old moravian towns that were found and settled here by moravians from europe,in the mid 1770's... old salem is a restored moravian settlement and a top tourist attraction here all year long!you can find them all on the internet! but,mt.airy is where i spend a lot of my time,pickin' and grinnin' with lots of old-time musicians from the surrounding area!blue grass music is big here too and Galax,Virginia is only a little over an hour away too and it's where you wanna be the annual fiddler's convention rolls around each 2nd week in august! so,that's just a few goodies here to peak your interest,but if you wanta really get into it and visit sometime,our door is always open and folks dropping by all the time...if you gonna be in the region anytime soon,drop me and email(tar2000heel@hotmail.com)and let's get together and pick a few tunes! peg is a great cook too, and you'll be glad you dropped by once you taste her home cooked meals! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Biskit Date: 03 Sep 00 - 08:43 PM Dulci46,Where abouts are you from in Indiana??My family is from in and around Salem, I lived there m'self until I was about 16-Biskit- |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: GUEST,Alistair Date: 03 Sep 00 - 08:05 PM Though it says guest, I´ve been coming in here for about 2 years now, but I am IN Recife, Northeast Brazil though originally from Luton, Bedfordshire, Southeast England. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: ac362 Date: 03 Sep 00 - 08:55 AM I'm from Manchester U.K. The home of Physics (yuch) |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: bflat Date: 02 Sep 00 - 07:10 AM Between a rock and a hard place. Somewhere in North America, USA, New Jersey. But the moving truck just pulled up. Hey guys,....watch that corner....I'll hold the door....yeah I'm taking that....no, not that one. Forwarding address to follow! bflat |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Shanti Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:41 PM Guess we all should be glad to be anywhere, and I'd much rather be here (in Shade, Ohio) than in MANY other places I could name. At this precise minute, I'm in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University...because it's not time to go home yet (RATS!) |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Sean Belt Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:05 PM I'm in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. And darned happy to be anywhere! - Sean |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Mbo Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:30 PM Steve, I hate to be anywhere BUT there! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Jim Krause Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:26 PM I live in Lawrence, KS, Soddy |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: tradsteve Date: 01 Sep 00 - 03:23 AM Right in the hub of the Silicon Valley, California. I'd like to be anywhere else. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lepus Rex Date: 31 Aug 00 - 06:01 PM Go here. Newest 'Where are you' thread, with links to some older ones. ---Lepus Rex
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Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: lunamaid Date: 31 Aug 00 - 05:47 PM I DO believe this thread has gotten awful long. But I'm not one to just sit by and let everybody else have all the fun. I'm in Memphis, Tennessee. On Beale Street, "home of the Blues" (.....uh, where we currently have a Hard Rock Cafe and Harry's Last Resort in residence). Sometimes, if you watch really closely, you can catch some real blues on the street. Right now, I wouldn't mind being where mousethief is. Been looking at websites about Sequim, Washington, wishing I could enjoy the weather there (practically perfect). Lena, it was 108 degrees here yesterday. If I could send you some of this sunshine, I would. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: mousethief Date: 31 Aug 00 - 05:30 PM I'm in beayoooootiful Sumner, Washington, USA, population 4,000 give or take. Salute!
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Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Allan C. Date: 19 Jul 00 - 06:41 PM Well heck! Great minds and all that stuff. Now what'll we do? |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Allan C. Date: 19 Jul 00 - 06:38 PM This thread is getting a bit long. So look for the continuation in Part II BTW, I am currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lepus Rex Date: 19 Jul 00 - 06:33 PM Oops, like The Shambles said, go to this one! ---Lepus Rex
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Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lepus Rex Date: 19 Jul 00 - 06:29 PM Turtle, I was referring to Peanuts on Parade; giant Snoopys. Some have been vandalised (ears ripped off, etc.). It's a rip off, I think, of something with giant pigs in Chicago, and a belated acknowledgement of St.Paulite Charles Schulz. How could you miss them?! :) ---Lepus Rex |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: The Shambles Date: 19 Jul 00 - 06:23 PM This may be getting a little large for some folk's machines. Click here for Where are you? The Sequel |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Turtle Date: 19 Jul 00 - 05:59 PM Lepus, giant broken Snoopy statues? In St. Paul? What have I been missing? Well, Minneapolis has the famous spoon-with-cherry, and the ice cream billboard with the giant peach I pass on 35W every day. I gotta tell you,for kitsch I don't think there's a big difference between the two cities. But I agree, Minneapolis rocks. It's just that every once in a while I miss those green rolling hills of home. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: BlueJay Date: 19 Jul 00 - 02:42 PM So far the Colorado Contigent is unspoken. I live in Trinidad, (Southern Colorado), but will soon be moving to La Veta, (also Southern CO). I will then be a little nearer to the rest of the Clorado 'Catters: Lonesome EJ, WyoWoman, Banjoman_CO, Rex and various other non-mudcatted fine folks I met courtesy of Bill and Allan's great adventure. Looking forward to picking with these folks again in the future. Lepus Rex, is Wyoming, Minnesota anywhere near Montana, Wyoming? |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Drumshanty Date: 19 Jul 00 - 01:46 PM Kat, thank you for the kind welcome!
Like most folk here I seem to have spent my life moving from place to place - Cornwall, Manchester (11 great years), Plymouth, Elgin and a six month holiday in Portland Oregon. But I always wanted to come back to Scotland and I would not be anywhere else at the moment. I still get itchy feet in Spring tho'! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: John J Date: 19 Jul 00 - 01:30 PM JohnB: well I remeber the Fishermans Inn @ Littleborough, with Jack Lee and his wife as resident singers....happy days! Catrin: there's nowt wrong with Manchester! (Although I live in Altrincham, abt 8m South of the city centre). Did you know about the sessions at the Bull's Head in Mobberley on the first and third Wednesdays of the month? Also a good singers club @ The Railway, Heatley, near Lymm on Thursdays. Good beer too. John j |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Faded Denim Date: 19 Jul 00 - 11:45 AM I live, work, sing and carouse in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada., 40 minutes northeast of Toronto. Our little town is an artistic and artists' oasis with lots of musical and artistic stimulation. I sing and play in three different groups; Faded Denim, a close harmony trio and base player a la PP&M; Full Circle, a Travellers/Weavers style foursome with a social conscience; and Claidhmor (pronounced Claymore), a men's Scottish/Celtic singing group presently with five voices plus accompanists. Claidhmor and Faded Denim are performing at the Highlands of Durham Games this weekend, July 21, 22 & 23. You can visit this web site at www.highlandsofdurhamgames.com Cheers Reid |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lena Date: 19 Jul 00 - 09:27 AM Roo,Homebush is ten times better than Kings Cross.Or am I winging?! Noo,I love my Kings Cross...But if you envy the others,well I envy you for being up on the Blue Mountains. Good,good like for the Olimpics. Be brave. Lena |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Naemanson Date: 19 Jul 00 - 05:56 AM Hey L R Mole! When are you coming through town? I'm out of town until the 22nd and then I'm hosting the Mocha Cafe coffeehouse and open mike. there will be a mini gathering of 'catters there. You ought to come a long. PM for details. And, yes, the ospreys still nest on the bridge onto Arrowsic. There are also breeding pairs on the pole coming in to Bath and a tree where Route 1 crosses the New Meadows River. In the summer the ospreys are as numerous as mosquitoes. I woke this morning and my sheets were painted orange by the sunrise reflected from the clouds. I rolled over and looked out at the river to see an orange and blue mix of color reflected in the water and tinting the rocks on the other bank. As I watched a squadron of seagulls stroked past on their way down river to examine the fishing boats and fish packing plant. Why would I want to live anywhere else? |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: sledge Date: 19 Jul 00 - 04:45 AM Aren't the blue mountains the patch Dave Swarbrick settled in for a while, Just curious. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: zonahobo Date: 19 Jul 00 - 04:43 AM Glendale Arizona (born in Phoenix .. a real travelin nut) where we can actually see our rivers cause they are not all covered with water and you can make pretty good money selling buckets of shade. I'd like to visit everywhere I've collected stamps from .. just about everywhere. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Roo Date: 19 Jul 00 - 04:30 AM You are all making me envious. I've lived all my life right here. I'm in the Blue Mountains in Australia, overlooking the lights of Sydney and the 2000 Olympic rowing and white water venues. We have a creek in the bushland at the back and it is raining, windy and cold! (so much for sunny Sydney)... now, if only I had the courage to get on a plane and see the world beyond this island home! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Amergin Date: 19 Jul 00 - 03:23 AM Lena, The dreaded Opera singers may have choked your culture's folk music to unconciousness, but I doubt very much it is dead. It is up to you and your fellow countrymen (and women) to splash some water in it's face and revive it. If there is no song about missing your homeland, then make one up...Hell make up a bunch of them. Write songs about your childhood, songs about life in a new place from your Italian expatriate point of view, songs about leaving your country and what it was like, songs about your history, hell, just write some songs and spread them around. Just because there is no current Italian folk music scene doesn't mean there can't be one. If you and some of your friends start a revival, the results just might surprise you. Amergin |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: little john cameron Date: 19 Jul 00 - 02:51 AM Ah'm sittin here at the edge o' the wurld in Torbay Newfoundland,Canada.It amazes me that sae mony o' ye are no' fae the "Auld" country an' yet ye are sae interestit in it.This applies tae aw kinds o things ,no jist music.The web is fu o stuff aboot Scotland. Mibbe ah'll stert a wee threed on that topic an get yer opinions on hoo that micht be. SLAINTE LJC |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lepus Rex Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:31 PM Turtle, Minneapolis ROCKS, hehe. And you know it's not like St.Paul. We (can I still be 'we' if I don't live in town anymore?) don't have giant broken Snoopy statues! ---Lepus Rex |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Turtle Date: 18 Jul 00 - 01:27 PM Bigchuck, I too am a native Vermonter (sixth generation) who only recently moved away and will surely be back. My mom grew up in Rutland and my grandparents lived there til they died, so I spent a lot of days down on Seabury Street, though I grew up in & around Northfield and Montpelier. Still have lots of second and third cousins there--Losebys & Davises, mostly. Susan A-R. who hasn't yet responded to this thread is another native Vermonter, who grew up in Randolph and lives in Montpelier now. (But probably you know her? Vermont is such a small place.) As for where I'd like to be, well, my heart sure pines for the summit of Camel's Hump in the summer, with the red sun going down behind the smoky blue Adirondacks and the granite still warm beneath me . . . or swimming in those cold clear spring-fed waters of Curtis Pond or Number Ten . . . Of course, Scotland would do nicely too. And I've always wanted to visit New Zealand. And then there's the Pont d'Espagne in the Pyrenees. Sigh. But Minneapolis is pretty good for right now. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: SDShad Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:58 AM Small world, Spaw! Hell, it's a small enough town--what's her name? PM me if ya want.... Chris |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: catspaw49 Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:54 AM Sorry about the omission Mark, but as damn near my entire life history as well as the photos from lower GI's have been posted here, it didn't occur to me that there was anything that everybody didn't know.........Bremen, Ohio.....about 45 miles southeast of Columbus. And dulci......We're trying to get kat to make that trip sometime soon. Spaw PS....Shad, my mother-in-law lived in Vermillion for a few years. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: SDShad Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:32 AM Susan from California-- You'll be in the Dakotas in early August? Might I suggest the Sioux River Folk Festival, August 4-6, Canton, SD? Hypatia and I will be there with bells on.... Chris |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: L R Mole Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:28 AM Gawd, what a fiddle-footed bunch. Shortly I'll be passing through the Bath on the way to Arrowsic, to see among other things whether the fishhawks still nest on the top of the little bridge. The sea, as Mr. Hendrix observed, is the biggest living thing *you* know about. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Fortunato Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:08 AM Darn JAB. I wanted to tell that story. so He comes to my door in a thunderstorm with a washtub and a long stick. Fortunately he had a banjo case as well, making his motives clear! All around the world and in my own back yard. Ain't it amazin'? And he plays good, too. I'd like to be at a world gathering with all of you anywhere at all. Ah, communion. Fortunato |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: katlaughing Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:15 AM Yep, Dulci, you and Spaw and MaryinKy, too! We'll have a party!! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Nicole Leonard Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:32 AM I'm in Auckland, New Zealand. I've lived in New Zealand all my life and haven't done much travelling (been to Australia). I'd love to visit Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall. I'd love to visit all sorts of places, but New Zealand is miles from anywhere (except Australia). |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Dulci46 Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:27 AM Kat, So if your son is in New Albany, and you come to visit, you have to come to my house to. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lena Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:18 AM Thanks everybody for your stories. I was afraid to be hassled for launching a non-strictly-serious topic.Sorry about that. I ferociously ate up dinner in front of the screen reading all postings.A most enjoyable meal. Looks like I'm abosluty in the majority by being far from where I was born.This thread actually came during an attach of homesickness.I'm actually realizing there's a place I should call home.I'd like it to be here-where the wind is generous,the colours astound you etc-but looks like a certain olive grove on some italian hill is singing me home. And you're lucky you can take folk music with you! Central Italy folk music was strangled by Opera singers so long ago(I hate Opera....)and if yoiu're a homesick italian there's nothing you can sing about. Happy staying and happy travelling. Lena P.S.Callie,where in Sydney are you?! I'm in Darlinghurst ,if you may. I thought Sydney to be a very un-folkie place(but a great one)...
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Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Skipjack K8 Date: 18 Jul 00 - 07:56 AM Like the Mary Black line, Embo, probably 'cos I don't. Heaven, for me, is where I was born and raised, on the wide expanses of the windswept Essex salt marshes. That is where my bones will lay, after I finally make my homecoming. I thought I would try and write about it, but realised a wordsmith with powers far greater than mine had already done so, over a hundred years ago, in the opening lines of his hymn to the marshes, Mehalah. Apologies for clogging up the thread, but I love these words so much. Mehalah - Sabine Baring Gould - Chapter One - The Ray "Between the mouths of the Blackwater and the Colne, on the east coast of Essex, lies an extensive marshy tract veined and freckled in every part with water. At high tide the appearance is that of a vast surface of Sargasso weed floating on the sea, with rents and patches of shining water traversing and dappling it in all directions. The creeks, some of considerable length and breadth, extend many miles inland, and are arteries whence branches out a fibrous tissue of smaller channels, flushed with water twice in the twenty four hours. At noontide, and especially at the equinoxes, the sea asserts its royalty over this vast region, and overflows the whole, leaving standing out of the flood only the long island of Mersea, and the lesser islet, called the Ray. This latter is a hill of gravel rising from the heart of the marshes, crowned with ancient thorntrees, and possessing, what is denied the mainland, an unfailing spring of purest water. At ebb, the Ray can only be reached from the old Roman causeway, called the Strood, over which runs the road from Colchester to Mersea Isle, connecting formerly the city of the Trinobantes with the station of the count of the Saxon shore. But even at ebb, the Ray is not approachable by land unless the sun or east wind has parched the ooze into brick; and then the way is long, tedious and tortuous, among bitter pools and over shining creeks. It was perhaps because this ridge of high ground was so inaccessible, so well protected by nature, that the ancient inhabitants had erected on it a rath, or fortified camp of wooden logs, which left its name to the place long after the timber defences had rotted away. A more desolate region can scarce be conceived, and yet it is not without beauty. In summer, the thrift mantles the marshes with shot satin, passing through all gradations of tint from maiden's blush to lily white. Thereafter a purple glow steals over the waste, as the sea lavender bursts into flower, and simultaneously every creek and pool is royally fringed with sea aster. A little later the glass-wort, that shot up green and transparent as emerald glass in the early spring, turns to every tinge of carmine. When all vegetation ceases to live, and goes to sleep, the marshes are alive and wakeful with countless wild fowl. At all times they are haunted with sea mews and roysten crows. In winter they teem with wild duck and grey geese. The stately heron loves to wade in the pools, occasionally the whooper swan sounds his loud trumpet, and flashes a white reflection in the still blue waters of the fleets. The plaintive pipe of the curlew is familiar to those who frequent these marshes, and the barking of the Brent geese as they return from their northern breeding places is heard in November." It's a good read, but it'll have you blubbing. It's on the net at http://www.author.co.uk/mehalah.htm Skipjack |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: GUEST,andy mööer Date: 18 Jul 00 - 07:26 AM I'm Australian,although Austria is where I seem to be living |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Callie Date: 18 Jul 00 - 06:57 AM I do live where I love. Sydney Australia is home. I'll be travelling through England Ireland and Europe next year, on a big adventure. I can't stand the heat and will go to great lengths to escape Australian summers (like go to Scotland!) Callie |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lox Date: 18 Jul 00 - 04:06 AM Yo Midchuck, If you want to go to Ireland, go everywhere. You are 1000 times more likely to get run over by a car than to suffer harm at the hands of the paramilitaries. ...Calling from Babylon...over and out! |
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