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Water Tower String Band plays at FolkLife 2008 at the Seattle Center.

 

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining several friends to see the last day of Sasquatch at the Gorge in central Washington. It’s one of the best places to see an outdoor show, so long you don’t mind spending $30, $40, $50, $60 in gas for the round-trip ~300 mile round trip (via Seattle).
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“Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there lays a largely unnoticed fact: bananas are dying. The foodstuff, more heavily consumed even than rice or potatoes, has its own form of cancer. It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible.
There is no cure. They all die [...]

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Jean Dick of Corvallis, OR plays violin for the crowds of Folklife at the Seattle Center. Jean, a violin instructor, has come to the event for the past 10 years, and has played the last 7.

 

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