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Troubador Tuesday -- Jesse Winchester

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We started hearing about this dude after he had already split town to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft. Sad, because his ancestor Marcus Winchester founded Memphis, Tennessee, with Andrew Jackson way back when.

Unfortunately, there isn't much on YouTube of Jesse Winchester. Maybe I could have a little talk with the owner of his current label, a Canadian acquaintance of mine, about this. There

I’ve been away from the tubes

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I took two weeks off from work to build a shed for my equipment. I bought posts 14′, 13′ and 12′ tall that I planned to put 3′ deep.  Three posts in each row makes nine holes. Once I had the area cleared and the posts painted, I started to dig the holes. I got the first two done one afternoon and I was amazed how hard the ground was.

The Bell Witch Gives Me the Heebie Jeebies

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Forget storm chasing.  Forget sky diving.  Not interested in bungee jumping.  I want one of those jobs where I can be a ghost hunter.  I do believe in ghosts and have unfortunately experienced one or two in my time.  The creepiest was in college when I saw my bedroom door open, heard footsteps walk to my bed, the ch

Blue-eyed people have more kids

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That's the concluding statement in a Live Science story of how genetic researchers have determined that all bliue-eyed people in the world share a single ancestor who lived between 6,000-10,000 years ago.

"Originally, we all had brown eyes," said Hans Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Copenhagen.

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