tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729166837877316238.post2631316155120695881..comments2024-02-22T04:38:15.816-06:00Comments on Thoughts from a Route 66 Business Owner: May Day! M'aidez!Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664721949113509873noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729166837877316238.post-69480433786104044552011-05-02T10:43:09.566-05:002011-05-02T10:43:09.566-05:00I'd been looking for Ron Jones bottle. I haven...I'd been looking for Ron Jones bottle. I haven't found it yet, but I'll keep looking.Trevor Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10216077170526370999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729166837877316238.post-24520411674864748632011-05-02T04:04:02.153-05:002011-05-02T04:04:02.153-05:00No, I have been invited as a participant, but cert...No, I have been invited as a participant, but certainly not as a speaker. I presume there will be some interesting topics discussed, but I can't be there because I can't do anything on weekends during the travel season at Afton Station. I don't like to be away on busy weekends, and since I'll be away (unavoidably) for a week at the end of May, I need to defend my territory for the rest of the month. I look forward to hearing what's discussed at the seminar.Laurelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664721949113509873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729166837877316238.post-46604977002762691442011-05-01T21:28:45.519-05:002011-05-01T21:28:45.519-05:00Speaking of Route 66 seminars, I'm going to th...Speaking of Route 66 seminars, I'm going to the preservation workshop in Chandler on May 14th. Are you speaking there?Susan Yatesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729166837877316238.post-9230133443600815562011-05-01T18:18:00.368-05:002011-05-01T18:18:00.368-05:00Susan,
I would have loved to meet Pete Seeger as y...Susan,<br />I would have loved to meet Pete Seeger as you did. I've been interested in him for a very long time. But the reason I'm reading this particular biography is that its author, David Dunaway, will be coming to Tulsa in a few weeks to interview me for a forthcoming book on Route 66. I decided I needed to brush up in my Seeger knowledge so I could ask him some intelligent questions. The book is fabulous, by the way.<br /><br />You really need not apologize for misplaced parentheses and the like! I hate to think of all the errors you find in my writing, since 95% of the time I'm writing in GREAT haste, after a long day at Afton Station. Proofreading rarey occurs. :-)<br /><br />Incidentally, the Logsdons attended a Route 66 seminar I gave several years ago. Lovely folks!Laurelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664721949113509873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729166837877316238.post-55466358232722660442011-05-01T18:06:16.610-05:002011-05-01T18:06:16.610-05:00Uh-oh! Closed that parenthesis in the wrong place....Uh-oh! Closed that parenthesis in the wrong place. You were an English teacher. Go ahead, use our red pen. It should have been ". . . (where Guy was head librarian) that Guy had arranged." which would have then made that sentence make sense.Susan Yatesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729166837877316238.post-8615533022870423922011-05-01T17:59:50.411-05:002011-05-01T17:59:50.411-05:00Glad you had some enjoyable company on a rainy Sun...Glad you had some enjoyable company on a rainy Sunday. I imagine a good book comes in handy on a slow day. And Pete Seeger, there's a life worthy of a good telling. I want you to know about my brush with greatness (as David Letterman used to call such encounters) that involved Pete Seeger. I've had the good fortune to shake his hand--twice. I used to teach with the wife of Guy Logsdon, music historian and biographer of the Oklahoma legend (and Pete Seeger's pal) Woody Guthrie. The Logsdons had a party at their house following a lecture and performance by Pete at the University of Tulsa (where Guy was head librarian that Guy had arranged). My husband andI were invited to the party where we got to visit with Pete and his wife. That was 35 years ago and thinking about it now I realize that Pete was about the age then that I am now. Wow, that flips me out nearly as much as the fact that I looked that incredible man in the eye and shook his hand. Please, forgive my getting off topic, Laurel.Susan Yatesnoreply@blogger.com