Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )

Subject: Getaway 2005
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 11:57 AM

This year I'm determined to come to the Getaway, God willing. Do we have definite dates or a venue yet? I know it's early but I've got to make plans for my escape :~)
Giok

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 01:29 PM

And let me get this in early-- people traveling to and/or from are welcome for an overnight stop at my place in North Central PA, an hour south of Elmira NY, where routes 6 & 15 cross in PA.


DETAILS & MAP

~Susan

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 01:41 PM

I wasn't able to get there in 2004. Gonna try again this year.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: Max
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 01:46 PM

I am determined to make the 2005 Getaway the biggest and best ever. So this is a great year to come if you haven't been able to in the past. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets get excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: Big Mick
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:05 PM

I have been advocating on behalf of the Getaway since the first time I was so warmly welcomed. It is not too early to begin planning, and you will not regret the visit. I am with Max on this one, as I have been for some time. This is a wonderful event, and there aren't many like it.

Mick

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:23 PM

Finally having settled into Mudcat and getting to know some folks, maybe this is the year I will go too! Any ideas for dates or locations? Details...I want details....please!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:31 PM

date is Oct.14-17 (Friday thru Monday)at Camp Ramblewood...more info later

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: Teresa
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:35 PM

Well, I really am planning to go for my first getaway! I'm going to fly as far as I can (from Vegas) and then hopefully arrange for transport, since it's not a good idea for a totally blind person to drive. :)

Looking forward to meeting you all! I know I've been sort of a lurker; I'm very much like my cat, but can be very friendly and affectionate (also like my cat) :):)

Teresa(who is adding this thread to the "tracer"

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:49 PM

See past year's threads for Ramblewood details.

~S~

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 02:53 PM

great, Teresa! It will be good to finally meet you. We have one other blind woman who is usually there...Hey!..maybe we'll put her to guiding you...*grin*

(There is a story about Doc Watson and Kenny Hall playing at some party in California, when it was decided to move the party somewhere else. As folks started downstairs, it was noticed that Doc and Kenny were holding hands...each thinking the other was the guide! They did just fine!)

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:11 PM

I've been working for years to shame Valentine Doyle into attending the Getaway. She lives in New Hampshire (or something like that), and she goes to Camp Harmony in California and misses the Getaway. Those of you who know her, please help me twist her arm. She's right on the verge of deciding she should go.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:16 PM

Assuming I have regained a modicum of revenue stream by then, I intend to be there. That's only one pre-requisite, right?

A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:26 PM

Okay, having looked at the website for Ramblewood, I have a question. Do ya'll book cabins or stay outside the campground? Do you do meals there? Do you camp in tents? Hmmm? Curious minds want to know!!!!!!!!!

And for anyone else who is curious as to what Ramblewood is like, he's a clicky:
http://www.ramblewood.com/

Michelle

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Maryrrf
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:47 PM

Being very near (relatively) to the Getaway site (in Richmond, VA)you'd think I'd have made it to at least one - but every year I've had something else planned for that weekend and couldn't make it. Firm intention is to be there this time around and probably with a couple of other friends in tow.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Teresa
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 03:57 PM

Ha, Bill!

Long story made short: I was at a recent science-fiction convention, and someone thoughtfully found a guide for me. A woman came into a discussion group and sat down next to me, and I heard her check her talking clock. We introduced ourselves and then she said, "I'm visually impaired, but I can see to give you a guide!" Well, there wasn't much guiding going on; mainly talking and meeting mutual friends for the rest of the convention! very fun. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 04:28 PM

a getaway thread going already with almost nine months to Getaway...

hmmmmmmmm.......remind people of anything?

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 04:42 PM

Oct. 14-17 at Camp Ramblewood, for sure.

LilyFestre--when you arrive, you'll be assigned bedspace in a cabin, unless you prefer the privacy of your own tent. (You'll probably get the assigned bedspace anyway, in case you get cold.) Friday dinner is a potluck; since people arrive at all hours, it doesn;t make sense to have a dinner served at any particular time. After that, all meals are provided.

While we're at it, there's a date shift for 2006 to November 3-6, 2006. We'd like to try another camp (closer to DC, with heat and even more gathering spaces for music!) but the mid-October date wasn't available. More details on this later.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Dani
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 04:45 PM

$5 per week between now and then pays your way in.
Double that and you have a very reasonable airfare included.
Tuck a little more in the jar, and you've got a nice fat fund for the auction.

Carpool and spend even MORE on all the CD's you'll want to take home!

Dani

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 04:47 PM

WYSIWYG--This is the year that, once you and Hardy finish all your Sunday morning duties, you're going to have to drive down and join us for Sunday evening and into Monday morning. Yeah, it's not the whole thing, but trust me, it's worth the trip to the other side of Pennsylvania for the Sunday evening alone.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 05:02 PM

Wish we could, Charlie, but we'll have to wait till Hardi can take a whole weekend/Monday, and until it's at a flat handicap-friendly venue. But I am available to scout the location for accessibility suggestions, between now and 2006 when I pass through the area on biz travel.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 05:29 PM

I've put the date in the diary already.

Looking forward to meeting old friends and making lots of new ones this year.

I'll go with Mick on the welcome that is given, I felt so much at home last year.

It would be great to see more Brits - hope you can make it Giok.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:34 PM

So how does one book up for this ? I googled Getaway and could only find one near Boston the week before !!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: KT
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 08:05 PM

C-C-C-C-C-C-C-Camp R-R-R-R-R-R-RR-R-R-Rambb-b-b-b-le-w-w-w-w-woood???   My teeth chatter just thinking about it!!   Welllllll, okaaaay........ I'll go!!       (Already have my AIRLINE TICKET!!!)    Might be needing a ride from DC to camp, though.......

I'll just have to pack a backpack full of those handy dandy handwarmers! You know, the kind you whack and they heat up instantly? I'll put 'em in my sleeping bag, and here and there.......I'll use 'em all up in short order and then I'll fill the pack with all the new CDs I'll acquire while there!   Might even nab a few mudcatters to take home with me, too!    It's gonna be fun!!!

KT

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Ferrara
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 08:08 PM

Leadfingers & everybody,

Until a few years ago this was mostly a local FSGW event. Everyone who usually attended knew it was going to happen, and they all knew they would get their applications in "eventually," and so did the folks putting it all together.... So, no one paid much attention to making the application forms available sooner than, say, August :-).

Now that we have folks coming from Alaska and the British Isles etc we are having to arrange things so people can make their plans somewhat earlier.... We're working on it, we're working on it....

Joe, or Max, or Jeff, do you know why we aren't getting links at the top to former Getaway threads? I thought that was automatic when a thread had "Getaway" in the subject but maybe I have misunderstood.... First time ever, if so.... I just asked and Bill says somebody has to make it happen.

Anyway I think if you search for "FSGW" and/or "Getaway" you'll get lots & lots of information about what the weekend and the camp are like. But ... only believe the good stuff, the rest is a pack of lies put out by people who are too chicken to stand a little chilly weather (30 degrees inside the cabins isn't really bad, is it, Mike?) and a few minor hills....

Anyway if you find one of the earlier Getaway threads you will see all the relevant links.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 08:08 PM

Google FSGW, Terry. Folklore Society of Greater Washington puts on the Getaway in Ramblewood. Or you can click here.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 08:23 PM

do note..the list of workshops shown at Alaska Mike's link are LAST years, which Rita & I posted on our web space, (since she has been program chair, it seemed easier). As the summer drags on, new workshops will be planned.....but those listed serve to show kinda what it tends to look like...

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 08:48 PM

I'll be there for the entire 3 days this time around so I can pester more folks but I'll be danged if I'm gonna sleep in 30 degrees again so I'm gonna bring plenty of matches and burn down a few cabins to stay warm...

But just in case it is warm, I'm bringing my swimming trunks fir the pool...

I'm also gonna revive some of my old songs from my former life so that when I go to the various workshops I'll have more to offer than MIssissippi Delta and Hill Country Blues...

Might even bring the P-Vine...

Gonna bring some moonshine, too...

Gonna do a song with KT at one of the concerts, too... We're gonna do Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Keep My Grave Kept Clean"... She don't know it yet but she will...

Gonna spend more time with my pal of pals, Ebbie, who has bailed me out of more crap here than any other Catter. Sho nuff am...

Gonna bring some "real" food, too, although the night we had salmon it was purdy good...

Not gonna attend no workshops that are entitled "Care of Muses" where folks sit around and look at a bunch of candy on a table...

Gonna bug WYSusan from now until then to come 'cause she's my bud...

Gonna spend more time with Mario, my bud Ted, Kendall and Jacqie an', well, everybody... Sniff...

Gonna get up with Ken Shotz (?) and get him to learnt me up that acapelo song he did last time...

Gonna find the Mudcat Cabin, unless its one that I burn to keep watm, to hang in a couple nights and jam and get drunk... Okay maybe not get drunk...

Yep, thats what Iz gonna and ain't gonna do, fir sure...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Susan A-R
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 08:59 PM

YES! I'll be there.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:06 PM

Hell, Bobird, ah cain't this time, but y'all come on up befoah or aftuh!

~S~

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: KT
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:13 PM

"Keep My Grave Kept Clean"... She don't know it yet but she will...

Well, that's a fact. I dunno that one!! Did you write it, Bobert? Can't wait to hear it!!   I hear tell there are a couple of rowdy acts being worked up already!!

I'm gonna start sleeping an extra hour every day so I'll have some reserve by Getaway time!

KT

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:19 PM

WYSIWYG--
The camp for 2006 is flat (and handicapped-friendly). It's on the shores of an inlet of Chesapeake Bay. Downside for you: it's a little bit father from Pennsylvania.

Folks who remember last years frigid temperatures--
Our FSGW house meterologist did some analysis on weather patterns and assures us that we've had a run of three unusually cold years, and that last year was improbably cold. Statistics being what they are, there's no guarantee of a warmer-than-normal weekend next year, but at least the odds of it being that cold again are very small.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 09:35 PM

No, KT... I din't write the danged song. Blind Lemon Jefferson did an' I know you and me can hook up on it so good that when we're done wid it they gonna have to send several ambulances to cart off some of them D.C. Folk Society folks...

And no x-cuses, WYSusan. They done moved it so you could be there. You pick, either the flat land around the Chesapeake 'er your house. I thought you'd see it my way...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 10:15 PM

Cold? Who said it was cold. Bunch of sissies. I wore my sandals the whole weekend, although at night I did put on some socks. And the only coat I brought with me was a little fleece thing. 2004 Getaway wasn't cold, in Alaska we'd have called it "refreshing". You want cold, come on up here right now.

Mike

PS: Check this our: The Aurora Borealis has been very active in the Anchorage area these last few days. This is what the sky looks like when its COLD.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 10:16 PM

Well, Alaska Mike, I love ya' brother but....

















Yer friggin' nuts...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Big Mick
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 11:38 PM

KT ..... if you think that you are riding with anyone but me, just remember that I got seniority. I am the Mudcat what talked you into this, and I got dibs on picking you up.

The odds are just as good that it will be warm, as they are that they will be cold. If its too cold, I am going to invite Jeri into the sleeping bag. The child is warm ....... hahahahahaha.

9 months out and I am already giddy with anticipation.

Mick

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 11:55 PM

Bobert, mah bro:

Iffen Ah do revive my flagging stream of revenoo, an you and I meet on that dfair shore, we gonna share parts on a WHite Boy, Lost in the blues, iffen you doan mind.

You'll know it.


A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: KT
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 12:56 AM

Uh, yeah....right Mike....it was, uh....refreshing......yeah, that.

Bobert, ol' pal, I guess I'm gonna have to do some reseach to find those lyrics. If we're singing a duet, does that mean I hafta learn how to talk the way you do? Bobertese?

Oh, Mick....are you sure it's not out of your way?

Amos, quit with the "if" business! You are coming and that's all there is to it!! Now start collecting the loose change that's lying around and put it in the "Getaway or Bust" jar!

KT

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: DonMeixner
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 01:07 AM

Maybe this is the year,, Hmmm.....

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: karen k
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 05:27 AM

KT and Ebbie, I'm so glad you are both coming again! KT don't even think about arguing with Mick. It doesn't work. I've tried. He means it when he says it's no problem. Really.

Every year the Getaway just keeps getting better and better. I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Can't wait.

k

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 08:18 AM

Well, KT, sho nuff does mean yer gonna have to learnt up some Bobertese since too late to teach this ol' dog no new tricks... It outta be easy fir ya. All ya gotta do is walk out that penthouse joint o' yerz, go to the elevator and push the button thats got an "O" (for outhouse......) . No pfroblems at all

From the penthouse to the outhouse...

Now that's da bluez...

And, bring it on, Amos... Heck, if it da bluez, I got a lifes supply...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 06:38 PM

Mick, bring a shoehorn. Or butter. Butter sounds like more fun.

I'm looking forward to this. I thought I was OK last year, but I still wasn't up to my normal level of insanity. I may be better this year, but I find I just don't have the stamina to stay up late that I used to, but I might be wrong about that too! Gotta start learning some new songs. Gotta put a tune to the NJ Turnpike song.

Don - go. You can sell jewelry, and you don't even have to hang out in a booth. What most folks do is plop their stuff on a table with the prices on it, and leave a box for the money. Of course, you can't ensure people put bracelets on the correct way.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Pauline L
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 08:37 PM

I'm excited already.

Susan A-R, you and I are going to have great fun playing fiddle together again.

Bobert, I'll follow you to the Mudcat cabin. Maybe we can do "Follow Me Down to Mudcat." Please don't burn the cabin down.

Alaska Mike, thanks for the links to those beautiful photos of the aurora borealis.

Will someone tell me where the Getaway will be in 2006 or, at least, give me a clue? Is it that lovely place where the Getaways used to be?

Everyone, I'm looking forward to seeing you and making music with you. If you're sick, get well, and if you're well, stay healthy.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 09:16 PM

Hotdiggety damn, guys. Sounds good. Pauline L is bossy, isn't she? Sounds like orders to do us good, tho'. Any Texas folks planning to make the trip? Should we hook up? Carpool? Or convoy? And be prepared for -- uh, "refresshing"? -- temps. Izzat right, Alaska? (Thanks for the pics.)      Tw

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Pauline L
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 02:17 AM

1. No, I'm not bossy.

2. If anyone wants to come to the DC area a day or two before the Getaway, you are welcome to stay at my place. It isn't large or fancy, but I've got a lot of CDs and books of music.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 11:55 AM

*grin* I would say Pauline is one of the least bossy people I've ever met.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: bill\sables
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 03:01 PM

Looks like Skipjack and myself will be over this year, I've been meaning to go for about 6 years
Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 06:28 PM

Wonderful news, bill. It would be great to see you again. Bring me some Yorkshire tea, willya?

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 08:52 PM

Well I have sent off an e-mail offering to do a Whistle Workshop - AND
received a reply !!! All I need to know is what I need to lug across the pond - Do I need to bring sleeping bag ? Air travel is a pain for carrying too much !! I dont intend bringing too many instruments - just a mandolin and a banjola -And a whistle or three of course .
Incidentally , Bobert , I have been known to play a bit of blues on whistle , if it sounds interesting !

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 10:03 PM

Yer in the band, L-Fingers... Yup, you, me and....K...Tee...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (Oct.14-17 )
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 11:08 PM

Lead, bring Bobert up to MudCamp too, and his P-Vine of COURSE!

~S~