I shot this video with my little point and shoot camera. Behind the Super 8 Hotel, Stephen Dickey along with the other members of the Grease Gravy band were playing with fiddler and instrument maker Larry Hopkins. The band came to Dodgeville, Wisconsin to play at the Midwest Folklife Festival. Sorry it is so [...]
In the Clear Creek Cemetery, just south of Bloomington, Indiana there are three distinctive gravestones, each of which are shaped like a blacksmith anvil with a hammers resting atop the limestone marker. I believe these stones, were locally crafted, probably for blacksmiths who worked for the quarries producing and repairing tools. Two of the stones [...]
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