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Claudia Emerson

Governor Kaine has bestowed yet more recognition on Claudia Emerson and on the University of Mary Washington by appointing Claudia as Poet Laureate for the state of Virginia. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and now she will serve in this new role. In Wikipedia we find the following explanation of the title:

A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events.

Pig roast

We’re cooking a whole pig in a few days and I am responsible for the cooking part. It doesn’t sound so intimidating but I have never done a whole pig before and about 30-40 hungry people are going to show up at noon on the 31^st of August.

The first plan was to bury the pig in a luau style cooking plan. As my friend Rick and I thought about it though we thought that the risk of exhuming a half cooked pig was not one we wanted to take. So instead we are going to rent a trailer mounted cooking rig and at least be able to keep dinner in sight.  To be honest, the prospect of digging a 6’x6’x3’ deep hole in the hard summer soil was also an issue along with the need to haul enough rocks there to line the pit and enough firewood to cook the beast and finally of course having no prior experience at that style of cooking.   Not to  mention that the banana leaves might not be so easy to find here and the river has no seaweed that we could substitute.

Wish me luck and if you have any suggestions please feel free to send them along via the comment function. Any and all advice will be considered and appreciated.

Gaye Adegbalola CD Release Party

                      
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Robyn Ryan Reception

REMEMBER AUGUST 23

robyn ryan

"catitudes"

 

4-8:00

RECEPTION

AND SILENT AUCTION

BENEFITING

THE hope house

 

please join us

studio a 1011 A princess Anne st.,.

upstairs..........................

sara irby 368-2120

 

New work up now on River Voices

I have added new work by two Fredericksburg writers to River Voices this morning. I particularly like Collette Caprara's reminiscence and Amy Jenrette's second poem, 'Before The Darkness Settles'. Both they and I would appreciate your thoughts and comments.

All work is copyrighted by the authors.

Laurie & Peter

Hi everybody,

This weekend is our favorite weekend of the year.....It's time for another Ohio Guys extravaganza! If you are not familiar with this event, here's what's up......
Every August since 1995 we have invited our good friends and wonderful songwriters, Bruce Dalzell, Billy Rhinehart and Pat White from Athens, Ohio, to perform for the Fredericksburg audience. These guys are longtime musical colleagues of Laurie who spent several years peforming in the vibrant Athens music scene.

Billy Rhinehart, a custom-guitar maker and wildly imaginative songwriter, Bruce Dalzell, a much-covered songwriter who has appeared on West Virginia’s Mountain Stage and Pat White, an iconic figure in Athens who has influenced many of the regions songwriters, have been featured artists every year. On each visit they scoop up one of their musical colleagues from the rich pool of talent in Athens. This year’s “ringer” is Albert Rouzie, an English professor at Ohio University who fuels his rich, literate songs with the power of his delta blues guitar style. Both Dalzell and White have contributed songs to both of our CD's two CD's. Dalzell's song Tocoi Light was the title track to their first CD and was nominated for a WAMMIE for song of the year.These guys are really special and this event is one of our musical highlights every year. We hope you can join us!

Laurie and Peter

All of the Athens artists will join us and Kent Ippolito plus lots of special guests
Friday August 15 9:00PM-Midnight at
Colonial Town
406 Lafayette Blvd
Fredericksburg, VA (540) 373-1313
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They will perform a concert by themselves on 
Saturday, August 16, 8:00PM

Liberty Town Arts Workshop
916 Liberty Street
Fredericksburg 540-371-7255

And then on Monday night at

Bistro Bethem, Medina Roberts opened her new exhibit for August. You really need to see this collection of Medina's energy and imagination. I loved it and even bought one of the paintings myself. Of course it has to stay there in the exhibit until the end of the month but since it's at Bistro Bethem, I can walk in most any night and visit it until I can actually take it home to enjoy.

Here's one that you'll see at this delightful showing:

First Friday Notes

As any of you who read this blog on a regular basis know, I don't usually comment on First Friday events after the fact. August openings bring some thoughts to mind though. First the down side and to me that was the noise in Market Square behind the museum. That vast masonry walled echo chamber was just unbearable for me. Although I didn't count heads, there couldn't have been much more than 30 people there when I wandered over. The museum's effort add an event to the line up of First Friday affairs is admirable  but they really need to listen to some of this stuff before they book it. To call it music is a stretch, sounded more like a train wreck to me.

On the upside, in my view, Robyn Ryan's new show at Studio A was refreshingly innovative. Robyn, known here best for her paintings of horses has added cats to her spectrum of subjects and in a very original 3 dimensional style. You really should see this collection. It will be on display at Sara Irby's Studio A for the rest of the month and there is even going to be a second reception on the 23rd. See the announcement for this past First Friday for details.

Vreelands

Laurie & Peter

Hi evreybody,

Hope you can join us this weekend.......

Laurie and Peter

   

Friday, Aug 8, 9:30 -1:00   The Blarney Stone Public House   715 Caroline St.   Fredericksburg, VA, 540-371-PINT

Saturday, Aug 9, 6:00-9:00PM   Old House Vineyard   18351 Corkys Lane   Culpeper, VA 540-423-1032