2010

Mar. 9-- THE BIBLE SALESMAN at Rockingham Community College, Wentworth, NC -- with Clyde Edgerton

April 9 -- The Focal Point, St. Louis, MO

April 10 -- Big Muddy Folk Festival, Boonville, MO

April 30-May 15 -- THE BELLE OF THE WABASH. Orangeville, IL; Hanover, IL; Galena, IL; Stockton, IL.

May 22 -- THE BIBLE SALESMAN @ Learned Place House Concert Series, Durham, NC -- with Clyde Edgerton

June 26 -- McLean Wedding, Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill, NC -- solo

July 18 -- WFHB Variety Show , Bloomington, IN. Afternoon. -- solo

Sept. 20-24 -- Solatido, Wild Acres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC -- solo

Oct. 2 -- St. Paul, MN. The House of Hope Presbyterian Church -- with Clyde Edgerton

Oct. 15-16 -- Home Craft Days Festival, Mountain Empire Community College, Big Stone Gap, VA -- with Craver, Hicks, Watson and Newberry

On post-WW2 America, from 1945-1950: "For the first time, the US was not involved in a war. The Depression was over. Suddenly, there were 13 million of us who'd served in the military and were home. There was a cultural burst that Americans had never known before: we became number one for things like ballet. We had dozens of first-rate poets, several not so bad novelists, wonderful music, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. It was a great moment, and it lasted for five years. Then the Korean War came, and we've never stopped being at war since. ---Gore Vidal, from the IMDB

"We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red Chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun." ---Clara Bow, on Hollywood, then and now

"I cannot unbuckle the Bible belt. That is why I will never write my memoirs." ---Louise Brooks, from WHY BE GOOD?: SEXUALITY & CENSORSHIP

"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it." ---Colette

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings and sixpence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and sixpence, result misery." Charles Dickens, DAVID COPPERFIELD

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.” Søren Kierkegaard

"God preserve us from generalizations. There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble." --- Anton Chekhov

"The best way to find out about a man is to have lunch with his ex-wife." --- Shelley Winters