January 2022

Mike Agranoff reported that he had a couple of nice online gigs over the New Years, one for a story telling group, and one at the Greenwich Village Folk Festival. He performed "Ballad of the Sandman" at both. He has a live acoustic gig in Staten Island January 15. It will be at an 1819 tavern with "original amenities".

Peggy Karr had a dinner party at her home for New Years eve for 3 of her neighbors with ages ranging from 45 to 80.

Paul Fisher reported that he finally had his solar panels turned on, followed by a week with no sun.

Sam and Robin Edelston bought a house in Bradley Beach New Jersey but they are not moving from Connecticut.

Pamela Zave bought her partner Yolanda Fundora a resonator guitar for Christmas which Yolanda loves.

Todd Dennison got a beautiful original digital image printed on acrylic from Annie which was created by Yolanda Fundora.

Bob McNally reported that he has completed a master reorganization of his commercial site, Strumstick.com, which is a vast repository of all things strumstick related. There is now a table of contents where each entry is linked to all the resources on the site related to that topic.

Elizabeth Lachowicz reported that her niece just had a baby, her 18th or 19th great nephew. She had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's in Chicago with her family. They had a modified Polish Christmas tradition that was just as meaningful.