Where are you?

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: 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: 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 - 10:58 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Lepus Rex
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 06:33 PM

Oops, like The Shambles said, go to this one!

---Lepus Rex

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: 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: mousethief
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 05:30 PM

I'm in beayoooootiful Sumner, Washington, USA, population 4,000 give or take. Salute!

O..O
=o=

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: Lepus Rex
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 06:01 PM

Go here. Newest 'Where are you' thread, with links to some older ones.

---Lepus Rex

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: Jim Krause
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:26 PM

I live in Lawrence, KS, Soddy

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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([e-mail])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: black walnut
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 02:30 PM

Tarana. Oh sorry. Toronto.

~b.w.

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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 05:49 PM

Saint John's, Newfoundland.

Subject: RE: Where are you?!
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 06:05 PM

The middle of the North Sea,in a Control Room full of telephones, flashing lights, buttons and screens displaying complicated technical looking things I have to pretend to understand.

Subject: RE: Where are you?!
From: beetle cat
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 06:37 PM

whooho Seaking im jealous. and yet we are all here...
and sorry, that guest from St John's NL was me.

Subject: RE: Where are you?!
From: Fliss
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 06:39 PM

Wow its definitely global.

Im in Shropshire, UK. Great music scene in the county.

Seaking.. as in helicopter? Or perhaps oil rig? Sounds a bit scary all the high tech.

Been on the ferry to Ireland and back this summer. Glad they have stabilisers.

I love Shropshire, but I love Ireland too and would love to just travel around as many sessions as possible.

Subject: RE: Where are you?!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 04:39 AM

Hull.

Subject: RE: Where are you?!
From: VIN
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 04:45 AM

Heywood, Lancashire, England

Subject: RE: Where are you?!
From: Juan P-B
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 01:00 PM

Hedge End, Near Southampton UK.

You cain't miss it - It's where the M27 is cobbled and all the Martin owners stand around waiting for someone to take their photograph

Juan P-B

Subject: RE: Where are you?!
From: sharyn
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 01:45 PM

Kensington, CA, a little non-town just north of Berkeley, in the house I grew up in, with members of my original family. I've lived in Ireland, Chapel Hill and San Francisco, but I LIKE it here.

Subject: RE: Where are you?!
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 01:56 PM

Right here.