I stood next to a construction worker on a recent rainy October day watching the bucket of an excavator chew apart an old, three-story house on Fairview Avenue in Seattle. The old home had become expendable to make room for a new office building near …

Brewer, baker, woodturner, treasure maker: All in a day’s work for Bluegrass State forester Scott Shouse
To me it was just an overgrown limb destined for the woodpile. But Scott Shouse, the forester extraordinaire, looked at the thigh-thick lilac branch we had just cut down and saw the makings of a rustic wooden treasure box.

A tribute to blues great Johnny Winter (1944-2014)
Mix the blues from Lightnin’ Hopkins and Muddy Waters, add some precision picking from Merle Travis, gargle with rock salt and whiskey, crank the amps way up, and you get Johnny Winter’s guitar playing and singing. I saw Johnny Winter play a couple of small venues …
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