August 15
https://longwoodgardens.org/events-and-performances/events/del-and-dawg-...
One of the most beautiful arboretums in the country, spend a day in beauty and a night with great music under the stars.
And check out the video of them performing "Country Boy Rock & Roll" in that link, it'll brighten up your day.
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 11:04 am
Thom,
Thom,
My folks moved to Kendal which is the property adjoining Longwood to the east on Rt. 1. (They sold their place off Kentmere Pkwy).
There a 50/50 chance the kiddo will be matriculating next fall at Washington College in Chestertown. If so, there's chance this date might coincide with her moving east, orientation etc.
My Mom loves the Dawg, so this is great.
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 11:07 am
Just checked and Chick and
Just checked and Chick and Bela are there the week before.
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 01:38 pm
Wow, hadn't even noticed that
Wow, hadn't even noticed that!
I'm sure that your mom is already familiar with the beauty of Longwood. The outside concert area is fantastic, hope that she makes it.
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 01:49 pm
She volunteers there in the
She volunteers there in the back greenhouses. She's a keeper!
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 02:16 pm
Just saw Grisman Saturday at
Just saw Grisman Saturday at the Broward Jewish Federation Theater.
It was called David Grisman strictly bluegrass experience. He is surrounded by some fantastic talent. He took you on a bluegrass history class from 1880's to the 1960's. One band he talked about stuck in my mind and made me laugh was "The Skillet Lickers"
Small couple of hundred seats. Show was fantastic. Good times at the Jewish center. He has a couple of other dates in the next few months. If you have a chance go to the show.
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 02:46 pm
David knows his bands....
David knows his bands....
The Skillet Lickers were an old-time band from Georgia, USA.
When Gid Tanner teamed up with blind guitarist Riley Puckett and signed to Columbia in 1924, they created the label's earliest so-called "hillbilly" recording. Gid Tanner formed The Skillet Lickers in 1926. The first line-up was Gid Tanner, Riley Puckett, Clayton McMichen and Fate Norris. Between 1926 and 1931 they recorded 88 sides for Columbia. Eighty-two of these were commercially issued. Later members were Lowe Stokes, Bert Layne, Hoke Rice, Arthur Tanner and Hoyt "Slim" Bryant. Their best-selling single was "Down Yonder", a hillbilly breakdown, in 1934 on RCA Victor. They disbanded in 1931, but reformed for occasional recordings after a couple of years with a changing line-up. "Back Up and Push" was another well-known recording. The Skillet Lickers, together with fellow North Georgians Fiddlin' John Carson and the Georgia Yellow Hammers, made Atlanta and North Georgia an early center of old-time string band music, especially the hard-driving fiddle-based style employed by each of these performers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skillet_Lickers
Dance All Night With A Bottle In Your Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tsYtp3qQI
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 03:25 pm
Wow! I make a point of
Wow! I make a point of visiting botanical gardens wherever I travel, and our visit to Longwood was definitely one of the best!
Huge huge yuge lily pads, the kind that a small child might be able to stand on.
Didn't know that they hold concerts there, super cool!
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 03:34 pm
There's six cats that live
There's six cats that live inside the conservatory. Here's one we saw on our visit last month.
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 03:46 pm
What a cool place to see a
What a cool place to see a show. Have fun. Dawg never disappoints.
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on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 03:53 pm
Longwood Gardens:
Longwood Gardens:
Today the 1,077- acre Longwood Gardens consists of varied outdoor gardens, ranging from formal to naturalistic in their landscape design, and 20 indoor gardens within a 4.5 acre (1.8 hectares) group of heated greenhouses. Longwood’s Conservatory contains 4,600 different types of plants and trees, as well as fountains.[10] The Gardens also has extensive educational programs including a tuition-free two-year school of professional horticulture, a graduate program, and extensive internships.[11] It hosts hundreds of horticultural and performing arts events each year, from flower shows, gardening demonstrations, courses, and children's programs to concerts, organ and carillon recitals, musical theatre, fountain shows, and fireworks displays. It also hosts an extensive Christmas light display during the holiday season.
Longwood Gardens has a long and varied history. For thousands of years, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished its streams, hunted its forests, and planted its fields. Evidence of the tribe's existence is found in quartz spear points that have been discovered on and around the property and can be found on display in the Peirce-du Pont House on the Longwood Gardens property.[3]
In 1700, a Quaker farmer named George Peirce purchased 402 acres of this English-claimed land from William Penn’s commissioners. George’s son Joshua cleared and farmed the land and in 1730 he built the brick farmhouse that, enlarged, still stands today.[4] In 1798, Joshua’s twin grandsons Samuel and Joshua, who had inherited the farm, actively pursued an interest in natural history and began planting an arboretum that eventually covered 15 acres. The collection included specimens that they collected from the wild as well as plants acquired from some of the region’s leading botanists.[5]
By 1850, the arboretum boasted one of the finest collections of trees in the nation and had become a place for the locals to gather outdoors – a new concept that was sweeping America at the time. Community picnics and socials were held at Peirce's Park in the mid to late 19th century.[6]
As the 19th century rolled into the 20th, the family’s heirs lost interest in the property and allowed the arboretum to deteriorate. The farm passed out of the family through several hands in quick succession, and a lumber mill operator was about to cut down the trees for timber in early 1906.[7] This threat moved Pierre S. du Pont, American entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent du Pont family to take action. On July 20, 1906, 36-year-old du Pont purchased the farm primarily to preserve the trees. He wasn’t planning to create Longwood Gardens, but within a few years, his desire to make it a place where he could entertain his friends transformed a simple country farm into one of the country’s leading horticultural display gardens.[8]
When Pierre du Pont died in 1954, he "had in place a well-funded yet adaptable mechanism for Longwood to continue."[9]
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on Thursday, March 9, 2017 – 12:50 pm
The have fountains that they
The have fountains that they can light up and coordinate with music, usually have a show every week during the summer with different types of music.
July 4th
Lily pads
Daylight
Looking back toward the main building
The place is a treasure.
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on Thursday, March 9, 2017 – 01:04 pm
Here's a picture of David at his unannounced sit-on with the Del McCoury Band at their December show at Seattle's Triple Door. Dave has put on a few pounds. He used to be so rail thin. Still sounds great. It was funny to see him up there in his cargo pants and Guat shirt with Del and the boys all dressed to the nines.
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on Thursday, March 9, 2017 – 01:28 pm
Del's band is always dressed
Del's band is always dressed sharp, one of the things I love about them. They'll even change outfits between afternoon and evening sets.
Dave hasn't been rail thin in quite a while. Fortunately it hasn't had any effect on his playing.