Tag: folk
group name: oldhippiescorner
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July 24, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
Yes, folks, gather a bunch of buttercups and put them into a bag. Wear this bag around your neck, and it will cure insanity! (Think of the fun explaining this!)
Let’s talk about hiccups next. . . .
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November 09, 2008 12:10 AM EST --
Spring melted in to summer... for some summer flowed into fall
We all helped one another and shared one and all
One room with twenty blankets or more
When It rained . . .
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September 22, 2008 06:56 PM EDT --
As some people know, my artistic endeavors go beyond just writing, digital art and the occasional poem; I also dabble with paint, on paper and canvas.
For the most part, I work with acrylics in . . .
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January 10, 2008 01:54 PM EST --
Christmas is over, the new years party is history and Orthodox Christmas was last weekend. Our trees came down this week, the lights outside came indoors and the decorations are being packed away for . . .
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June 23, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
Lupines grace the fields and grounds of the Look-out Inn in Flye Point, Maine. These colorful plants provided the foreground for the fourth annual folk festival that took place on Saturday, . . .
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July 12, 2006 12:36 PM EDT --
This morning I read with great sadness that Gayle Essary is not long for this plane.
I for one will miss his "Letters to Tralfamadore" articles about his life, times, and adventures.
However . . .
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January 24, 2007 06:25 PM EST --
This comes to you courtesy of Nippy Katz, who sent me the link to this recording of a radio show from 1940 featuring folk music icons Woodrow Wilson Guthrie and Huddie Ledbetter aka LEADBELLY (whose . . .
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June 25, 2007 01:48 AM EDT --
Yesterday Papa and I attended the Flye Point Folk Festival on the grounds of the "Look-out", an old country inn in Brooklin, Maine. Last night I posted an article about the festival and . . .
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November 14, 2007 05:41 PM EST --
Dateline: Monticello, NY
In the neverending quest to answer the question, "What is folk music?" the intrepid Hedgehog Correspondence Corps travelled to Kutsher's Resort in the beautiful . . .
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May 18, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
There are times when we cannot sit silent.
I've been silent when I was not sure if my words could help or might hurt too much.
I've been silent when I had no idea what to say.
I've . . .
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November 23, 2006 03:47 PM EST --
It was 1995, we worked tech support for a contractor to one of the biggest "traditional" computer makers in the world, (no not THAT one), and were nursing users through the conversion from Windows . . .
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July 01, 2007 05:32 PM EDT --
Here’s your Gatherstock 2007 Update! If you missed last week’s invitation, y’all are invited to Gather's Second Annual Fourth of July Picnic hosted by the Old Hippie’s Corner . . .
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March 21, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
A couple of the Ladies here on Gather reccomended uploading video clips in PhotoBucket, so I tried a couple, using my Kodak EasyShare C875. Using the following link, you can access a clip of . . .
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July 02, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
Sage Poultice
To relieve the pain of stings and swellings, try a sage poultice.
Run a rolling pin over a handful of freshly picked sage leaves, so as to bruise them. Put the leaves in a pan, . . .
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July 31, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
In a comment in another post here, well not a angel per se, but a lifetime of experience in getting into and out of trouble, as the short below demonstrates.
I had an odd childhood, three doors up from . . .
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January 20, 2008 02:20 PM EST --
It's bright sunny and - no kidding here - 13 below zero in St. Paul today. If there's a yard sale today, I'm not going to it. Instead, we'll do another installment of past . . .
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September 26, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
I finally finished my first apple head doll. I've been making the heads for years, but I never could get around to finishing one. I always got stuck trying to figure out how to do the body or the clothes . . .
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June 11, 2006 12:13 AM EDT --
Some of my younger readers have asked if it is appropriate to join the Old Hippie's Corner (OHC). I can understand their concern. When you are young, who wants to sit on the porch with a bunch of old . . .
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March 05, 2008 06:05 PM EST --
My name is Brian Bergeron. I am a Boston-based acoustic singer-songwriter and I'm competing in Gather.com's First Tracks Competition for a record deal with Decca Label Group. As . . .
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April 19, 2007 11:00 PM EDT --
There's a place in Maine that I consider my own...it's a small little point that juts out into the sea...during low tide, if your brave you can wander out to Goose and Gander Island and if you . . .
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