Suddenly I look up and we’re more than halfway through the year. Seems like a lifetime ago that I traveled south to visit friends and family. Certainly things will never be the same. I’m thinking a bit of that old time tune – Take Me Home (to the Sweet Sunny South) It’s been part of the repertoire forever but . . . → Read More: 2020 Midpoint
Tom Staley at the forge, mid 1980s, Macintosh Florida Tom Staley got me started in blacksmithing. I met Tom shortly after moving to Gainesville. He saw that I played clawhammer style banjo and introduced me to the old time music scene. I saw that he had a beautiful Swedish anvil and got him to tell me stories about . . . → Read More: Blacksmithing Mentor and Remarkable Human Being: Tom Staley |
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