Musicians & Setch...
Welcome to The Caffé Lena! The oldest continuously running Folk Club in the country... Something special is never out of the ordinary there...
David Rea ...Shorty's Ghost is the new recording that'll be out around Groundhog's Day! ...

Sad News Interuption...
Cowboy-Poet Buck Ramsey, was a very special friend of David's. He passed away on the 3rd of January at his home in Amarillo. He's been sort of the guiding spirit of The Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering put on by The Western Folklife Center for years... He'll be missed by everyone who shared his path for even the smallest time. He said a real cowboy never called himself one. Everyone called Buck a Cowboy. Here's some words from the prologue to his major work, "As I Walked Out One Morning"...

Oh, we would ride and we would listen
And hear the message on the wind.
The grass in morning dew would glisten
Until the sun would dry and bend
The grass to ground and air to skying.
We'd know by bird or insect flying
Or by their mood or by their song
If time and moon were right or wrong
For fitting works and rounds to weather.
The critter coats and leaves of trees
Might flash some signal with a breeze -
Or wind and sun on flow'r or feather.
We knew our way from dawn to dawn,
And far beyond, and far beyond.

Thanks Buck, we'll be singin', toasting and reciting words for you in Elko at The Cowboy Poetry Gathering... Thanks to thier site for the fine photo of Buck...
Buck's passing notice from The Amarillo Globe-Mail...

KRCB's "Our Roots Are Showing"
Sonoma County's own National Public Radio's Folk/Acoustic Saturday afternoon program!
Lake Sonoma House Concerts!
Fine musicians, a comfortable and darn tasty pot-luck dinner in a relaxed, delightful, just a little slap-dab gorgeous ridge-top Great-Hall! Part of The Camp California House Concert Series... Camp California is a community-oriented grassroots endeavor undertaken by local songwriters to showcase outstanding singer/songwriters from outside the Bay Area.
The Kate Wolf Memorial Folk Festival!
Rosalie Sorells, Utah Phillips, Nanci Griffith, Greg Brown, Laurie Lewis, Wavy Gravy, Ferron, Guy Clark and of course Nina Gerber! Not a better weekend of people and folk music to come down the pike... June 27th & 28th. Get your tickets soon!
Tom Mitchell... Just about one of the best fellas to sing & write a well written song as ever would come along.
U. Utah Phillips...It's Good Though!
Mary McCaslin's Site!... Wonderful Mary site! You can take that both ways...
The Freestone Un-Official Ramblin' Jack Elliot... There's story about Jack and Cesar the Road Manager Dog (also in French and German!).
Peter Lamson... Most likely Freestone's longest running musical performer! Held over for months by popular acclaim! An amazing range of music linked by his sharp sense of humor and fresh intelligence!
The San Francisco Folk Music Club! These people are champions... A legitimate extensions of Faith Petric, who Utah Phillips describes as The Great West Coast Folk Mother (or something like that).
Golden Egret Music A site with Northern California Club & Performer listings.
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse...
Steve Gillette's fine club and musician links page
Texas Music Stuff... My Gawd whot a huge bunch of Tejas music links...

Chief Seattle Arts site Good information from The Pacific North-West and Chief Seattle on a page under construction...

Okay.. It's The Holiday Season!
Yeah, it's been a few weks, but the tree's still up... Okay.. It's a 70 foot Redwood out off the upper pasture.
Last night we had Caroling at The Union Hotel(There, Danny...) in Occidental. The Bocce Ballroom (It was Mahoney's idea to call it that. Son Mark saw it after the name first went up and just shook his head... I love it.) was over-flowing onto the sidewalk where Jake, The Rein-Dog and I greeted kids and anyone else that wanted to pet and hug a Rein-Dog. His antlers were wondeful this year. Last year a little kid, barely able to talk, told a pal that he remembered The Rein-Dog from the year before when he was little.
Here's a chance to get into the action with Walt Kelly and POGO!
All the words and music to "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie", Walla, Walla,wash... an' Kalamazoo!

What Do Physicists Do For Fun?...
The Concept Exchange Society... A wonderful ongoing group!

The Joyridge Gallery... Fine Art and Great Artists

Hotel Registration, Our "Guestbook"

Here's a Soap Box to holler from...
It can be a Forum to argue with ideas raised here or offer a thought on all issues Domestic & Foriegn!
Read a post and re-but the thing or raise a new question.
This is can be a running commentary between opposing factions, back and forth and back again...

Daily News From Iceland...

Vermont links and then some... I really like Vermont so give it a go on it's links page...

Ed Sullivan and Topo Gigio! Click Eddee goodnight to hear Topo...
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Where ya Goin'?... Jump into a realtime moving ticker of search requests... At least for the first leg. Just come back to Freestone...

Alice... Try talking with Alice! She's AI... No not Artificial Insemination, Artificial Intelligence!
Visit a Chat-Bot... Here's a recent conversation... Nothin' to write home (or here) about.
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From various CNN Reports...
The level of right-wing paramilitary violence in Chiapas, Mexico has dramatically escellated in the past month or so. The latest massacre, on December 22nd., was only the latest, albeit by far the largest, incidence of paramilitary violence directed by right-wing paramilitary death squads against helpless Mayan civilians.
A few weeks ago, there was also a right-wing assassination attempt on two Bishops in the Chiapas area.
The Chiapas Solidarity Page.
"This is the logic of a low-intensity war, with the army and the government against the indigenous people" said Pablo Romo Cedano, coordinator of the Fray Bartolome Center for Human Rights
At least seven paramilitary groups, with names like Peace and Justice, the Red Masks and the Indigenous Revolutionary Anti-Zapatista Movement (MIRA), are said to exist in Chiapas and to be army-trained.
CNN Reports on The Massacre in Chiapas.

There have been an unusual number of deaths during law enforcement action in Sonoma County in the past two years... It's raised the concerns of The United States Civil Rights Commission which, though downgraded to it's State Advisory Board following Law enforcement pressure, held a 10 hour hearing in February. In the three weeks since the hearing there have been two jail suicides (one a friend of mine) and one a suspect's fatal shooting in Petaluma. Please read these thoughts for more information...

More Political & Environmental News and Groups...
The Friends of The Old Trees
The Western Sonoma County Rural Alliance
Ocean Song Farm & Wilderness Center!
The Judi Bari Homepage
"Home Free Home"... Ramon Sender Baryon's wonderful archieves of Morningstar and Wheeler's Ranch!
Austin Free Net!...An opportunity for kids from any economic world to use the internet! This is what technology is all about! Another good project worthy of support.
O'Reilly Project in Sebastopol goes to court!... Leran about Friends of The West County and how they are trying to show the foolishness of an apple orchard development when much more suitable parcels are going begging...

The Bodega Land Trust... Doing great work raising the issues and understanding of our Salmon Creek Watershed, the history of the area, ranchers and how the community can insure the future and respect our lands deserve.
Sustainable Ranching in Bodega... From The Bodega Land Trust Newsletter. Read about ranching today in the Bodega. It's just down the road to the Coast from Freestone. Freestone, sadly, is more developed and many ranches have been divided...
Salmon Creek Watershed Day...May 30th, at Harmony Union School in Occidental! Head here for more news on a Salmon Creek Watershed Day... Now, a great map of the area from Jim Tischler and The Bodega Land Trust.
Dispatches... Seth Zuckerman's knock-out writings from the North-West Bio-Cultural Regions... A highlight of Tidepool: News for The Rain Forest Coast, a darn fine site of Eco-information...
Port Townsend, Wash. Here's one of three stories where Seth really show how a Watershed/Salmon Restoration Festival can grow on you. They have "O-fish-ills" in charge! (Folks in Fish Suits!)
Benign Wine... A dispatch from Sonoma County and the relationship between The Watersheds and Wine...
An Interview with Seth Zuckerman A fine overview of Seth's observations and impressions as a Circuit Rider reporting on the people an disssues along the northern Pacific Coast.

Forests Forever... Our Mission: To protect and enhance the forests and wildlife habitat of California through educational, legislative and electoral activities.
Sonoma County Conservation Action... An active grassroots group that goes out into the community to mobilize volunteers and voters to get involved And they get things done.
Up to Date News archieves of The Headwaters Forest situation.
More news of The Headwaters and North Coast Forestry issues...
Political Ecology Group... PEG's campaigns build alliances to confront environmental destruction, racism, sexism, homophobia and corporate power.
Someone's Political Site of The Day...
National Women's History Project...
Celebrate The 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement!
The Feminist Majority addresses Gender Apartied in Afghanistan...
Read it and weep, learn and become active...
Since September 1996, when the Taliban militia group took over the Afghan capital city of Kabul, women in the majority of Afghanistan have been prisoners in their homes. The Taliban has: