Shady Grove The first time I heard the song “Shady Grove” was on a Doc Watson vinyl record, back in the early 1970’s. The song is one of those traditional mountain music melodies that have no record of who wrote it. It seems to have always...
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In 2016 Carrie Newcomer released the album “The Beautiful Not Yet” which contained the song “You Can Do This Hard Thing.” By that time Newcomer was a well established poet – singer – songwriter whose words and music carried a...
I have camped under the stars in a lot of places over my 76 years, from the banks of the Guadalupe River in Texas, to the shores of Lake Guri in Venezuela and up near timberline in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains of Colorado. When waking up outdoors...
I am partial to songs that originate in Texas, but I admit that many great songs come from other places. Will Kimbrough, born in southern Alabama, growing up with the traffic and ideas flowing along US 90, the Gulf Coast Highway, has written songs...
This week’s work was driveway and road repair for several families. The crews are experienced road builders and they worked hard completing projects. Work involved digging out and installing new culverts, grading roads and cleaning up debris...
This week’s crew from Pennsylvania were also young and energetic, completing over 20 jobs in spite of taking Thanksgiving Day off to do sightseeing, hiking and biking. Again, most of the work was felling or cutting up trees, and cleaning creeks...
This week’s crew of 18 weekly volunteers included people from Texas, Colorado and Pennsylvania. Some were new to MDS. Work continued clearing debris from yards and creeks, felling and cutting up trees. We had a bucket lift this week that...
This week of work held the surprise of including not only the regular MDS crew signed up for the week, but also 22 workers originally scheduled to do bridge work in W. Virginia. They and others were skilled skid steer, excavator and chainsaw...
We are well over 160 completed jobs! Our volunteers come from the Lancaster area of PA, one from a small town in VA, and one from the Washington DC area. Paul Jutzi and Cindy Sanderson are still here; mid-week they were joined by Steve Haskin,...