Eefer

I don’t know what, if anything, I’ll ever do with an e-flat clarinet, but I’ve been wanting one anyway. So I bought one on eBay. Needs some work, nothing major so far as I can tell. I haven’t actually tried playing it yet.

G’ville 2008

I’m back from my sixth Gilbertsville tour. This year the Newtowne Morris Men came from Boston, to join the Toronto Morris Men as the Binghamton Men’s guests. The tour was the same setup as the past five years, but this year there was one new feature: great weather. Rain overnight, but sunny and warm, but [...]

This time

Both the unnamed new Cotswold morris team in Syracuse and the Binghamton Morris Men are done with their practice schedule — well, pretty much. Both teams will run through some dances the night before their first upcoming public performances.
The new team’s learned three dances in the Ilmington style — the only three dances, according to [...]

Friend in the news

I know Martha Jenks. She used to dance with Thornden Morris. She’s a good friend of Heather’s aunt, who also is a member of the Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble. Cool to see this little story on CBS about how Martha came to the rescue of a teenage marimba group from Botswana.

At Home

This upcoming week is trash pickup week, when large piles of old mattresses, toilets, sofas, and other stuff appear along the roads in the town… and pickup trucks cruise the roads looking for stuff before the town picks it up. We’ve put our share out. I hauled out a lot of crap from the basement [...]

Kid Lit

In his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner writes:
The fact is that Carroll’s nonsense is not nearly as random and pointless as it seems to a modern American child who tries to read the Alice books. One says “tries” because the time is past when a child under fifteen, even in England, can read [...]