tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25174618002107110342024-03-14T08:39:41.347+00:00Little Yellow Sewing BoxLIttle Ole Stories from a Jewell Ridge GirlJenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.comBlogger429125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-44526120349358530462019-10-21T14:06:00.001+01:002019-10-21T14:06:36.203+01:00New CD! Concerts: London, Beverley, Preston, Carnforth, Liverpool, and USA!<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: 18px; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm pleased to announce that I have a new CD coming out on November 2nd . . . .</span></h1>
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. . . . and to celebrate I am playing a mini-tour of concerts in November! Shows in London, Beverley, Preston, and Carnforth. The London and Carnforth concerts include a Small Exhibition of American Southern Quilts from four generations of Appalachian Quilters – many from my own family. Details below.<br />
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I'll play a concert, TBA, in Nashville in January, followed by two shows in the Liverpool area in February. More dates to be announced at the first of 2020 including a tour in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA in April and May and a summer tour in Britain.<br />
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If you are keen to receive my new CD ASAP, then you are welcome to pre-order by sending $18 for the USA and Canada OR £15 for the UK to <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com" style="color: #3962a0;">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</a> on <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=f09f9568e0&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #3962a0;" target="_blank">Paypal</a>. Prices include postage. For other countries or arrangements, please feel free to email me on the same address. I will mail your CD on the 5th of November. Otherwise, you'll find them for sale online in <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=5105c86bea&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #3962a0;" target="_blank">my shop</a> in early December. I'll send along a note when they're on the interweb!<br />
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More about the concerts and my<a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=2043dd3e58&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #3962a0;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="852067" height="400" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/_compresseds/f0d1ced8-f870-4aa5-84c0-1377fd8d007d.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 300px;" width="300" /></a> new CD below.<br />
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It's all rather topsy-turvy out there in the wilds of the world, isn't it? Have you petted a dog or cat or watched a rabbit chew some hay lately? Perhaps a hunt for lichen or a visit to Mawmaw is in order? Maybe a nap?<br />
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Your singing and sewing friend,<br />
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Jeni</div>
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<span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong><span style="color: black;">November HOMECOMING QUEEN CD release tour!</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Saturday, November 2, House Concert & Quilt Exhibition<br />Crystal Palace, Doors 7, Concert 7:30, Tickets £15.<br />For reservations, contact Jeni Hankins<br /><a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com?subject=Jeni%20Crystal%20Palace%20House%20Concert%20" style="color: #656565; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</a><br /><br />Friday, November 8, House Concert<br />Preston (PR1 9JN), Doors 7, Concert 7:30, Tickets £12.<br />For reservations, contact John Hollingworth<br /><a href="mailto:johngeorgehollingworth@gmail.com?subject=Jeni%20Hankins%20House%20Concert" style="color: #656565; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">johngeorgehollingworth@gmail.com</a> or 07790 827849<br /><br />Saturday, November 9, House Concert<br />Beverley, Doors 7, Concert 7:30, Tickets £12.<br />For reservations, contact Helen Byass</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:helly@rbyass.karoo.co.uk?subject=Jeni%20Hankins%20House%20Concert" style="color: #656565; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">helly@rbyass.karoo.co.uk</a> or 07789862009<br /><br />Saturday, November 16, House Concert & Quilt Exhibition<br />Carnforth, </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Doors 7, Concert 7:30, Tickets £12.<br />For reservations, contact Jeni Hankins<br /><a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com?subject=Jeni%20Carnforth%20House%20Concert" style="color: #656565; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</a></span></strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="color: black;">If you'd like to host a house concert or book me to play for your folk club, village hall, church, school or festival, please write to me on </span><a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com?subject=Booking%20Inquiry" style="color: #656565; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: black;">. In the UK and the USA, I am able to bring a selection of quilts made by four generations of my family to your home, school, or venue. These can be displayed in creative ways on tables, beds, chairs, pews, etc, and a "gallery" space is not necessary. I have ten years of experience performing for and teaching songwriting to children and teens, and I LOVE these days in my tours. Please contact me to talk about my visiting your school. Here's a guide to my whereabouts in 2020 should you wish to book a concert.<br /><br />November: England<br />January: Nashville<br />February – mid-April: UK<br />Mid-April – mid-May: VA, TN, NC, VA, MD, PA, etc<br />June/July/August: UK</span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">As always, you can find my tour dates, by visiting my <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=d16eb5e8de&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #656565; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">website</a>.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong>JENI HANKINS:HOMECOMING QUEEN<br />RECORDINGS 2005 – 2018</strong></span><br />
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In 2005, I began recording my songs. I went to my first recording session in a barn in rural Maryland where a fella named Billy Kemp had a studio. My arrangement of the traditional ballad "Two Sisters" on this new CD comes from those winter 2005 sessions. Over the years, Billy and I always recorded more songs than we might put on an album whenever we went into the recording studio. Then, when it came time to select songs for the album, some songs were left in the archive because there simply wasn’t room for all of the recordings we'd made. Our albums tending to be based on themes, and some very fine songs just didn't fit the theme.</div>
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Over the last 18 months, since the release of my first solo album, <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=37ff9ab762&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank"><em>The Oxygen Girl</em></a>, I’ve been writing songs and performing them at concerts from Cornwall to California. I was lucky that the sound man, Dave Burrows, at <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=4f32f49d5d&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank">Bromborough Folk Club</a> on the Wirral near Liverpool captured a couple of these as did Peter Cutler who runs <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=32babbc03d&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank">Fiddler’s Crossing</a> with his wife Deborah in Tehachapi, California. (I'll be returning to Bromborough Folk Club on Wednesday, February 19th, 2020).</div>
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After coming across one of these older recordings by chance – “I’m Not Your Girl” – I noticed that this early song of mine had an answer in a song that I’d written last year – “Rise and Shine.” So, the idea for this album sparked and here you are.</div>
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I have, in fact, compiled, edited, mixed, and mastered this record myself because I wanted to see if I could put all of my recording studio learning from the last fourteen years to good use.</div>
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And because I had remembered my passion for printmaking and typewriters this past spring while wading through the red tape of my UK Visa, I have also made the packaging on my own, too. </div>
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I’m creating 200 of these CDs in my home studio. Each one will be numbered and signed by me. </div>
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I have loved hearing these old songs of mine again and I hope you will enjoy this song collection, too. I feel the songs have a theme of their own now – "<a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=3e01f6fc01&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank">the secrets girls keep buried down in their sleep</a>" (from "Coronation Day" by Jeni & Billy).</div>
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Available at concerts beginning on November 2nd, in advance by Paypal, and, in December, online.<br />
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Pre-order by sending $18 for the USA and Canada OR £15 for the UK to <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com" style="color: #656565;">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</a> on <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=b0de5f4a53&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank">Paypal</a>. Prices include postage.<br />
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I look forward to singing for you again, soon!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">JENI</span></div>
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Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-44517183015011939682019-07-16T10:23:00.000+01:002019-07-16T10:23:03.338+01:00Which Country? Questions from Trevor, age 7.<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: 18px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter">
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<span style="color: black;">When I was a kid, Mawmaw and her sisters – The Aunts (pronounced like the insects “ants”) – would take all of us kids to the beach on </span><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=bfd33a20ab&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Emerald Isle in North Carolina</span></a><span style="color: black;"> for a week in the summer. (Their motto is "Nice Matters" – and you wonder where I get this smiley thing.) This was the highlight of my year. I think my childhood brain was mainly absorbed by dreaming about this yearly event and then there was some space left over for curling my hair, dance class, doing Barbie’s hair, and math problems. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Over seventeen years of going to the beach, I learned to ride the waves, flirt with boys, and eat my weight in Fruity Pebbles. My recurring fantasy was that my best cousin, Rachel, and I would grow up to live in a house together on the ocean front. Now, Rachel and I live on different continents and neither of us live in a house on the ocean front, but that dream helped to make me a dreamer and where I live now seems like a dream. Many of the places I’ve lived have seemed dreamy to me, in fact – a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, a fifth floor flat in Paris, a town house six blocks from the US Capitol, an Arts & Crafts house next to one of the most famous recording studios in Nashville, and this flat in the treetops in London where I can hear the trains pass gently night and day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I’ve lived in fifteen or so different places since I graduated college and I’ve never stayed in any one of them the whole year round. When I left Nashville a few weeks ago, after a two month stay, I noticed nearly black gladiolus getting ready to bloom in my yard which I’d never seen before. And I still haven’t seen them because here I am in London . . . </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But, as I was saying. The Beach. This summer, Rachel decided that us “children” should take Mawmaw and The Aunts to the beach. So, she rented a house on Emerald Isle and, after more than twenty years, we all went to the beach. Well, we couldn’t all go, because in the time since our last visit, grandmothers and husbands, fathers and brothers, children and mothers have passed away. But there we were, the matriarchs, the progeny, the second husbands or wives, the newborn babies, the boyfriends, and the step children – the whole gamut of modern family life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Because of this and that, I could only go for part of the week, but while I was there I spent a lot of time with my third cousin, Trevor, who is seven. Trevor and I got on like hot cakes because I often say that I am mainly seven in my everyday thinking. We collected seashells, we played chase, we splashed each other with water, we watched a movie, we made shell-covered animal cracker boxes, we ate the </span><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=5bc94dea6b&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">animal crackers</span></a><span style="color: black;"> while trying to decide whether we were eating an elephant or a koala (ack!), and we ogled scary fish together at the aquarium. His pronouncements on me were that I was good at coloring, good at crafts, a good singer, and pretty. That made my year. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When we were combing the beach for the absolutely perfect shells to decorate our animal cracker boxes, Trevor, who had been told that I was moving to England, asked me, “Which is better? England or America?” This was quickly followed up by, “Who do you think is more powerful? America or China?” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Well, Trevor . . . I tried to say something adult like, “Don’t you think it would be great if countries could work together to make the world a kinder place, rather than competing against each other to be better or more powerful?” Oh, Jeni. You may be good at coloring, but world political analysis for seven year olds? Maybe not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Poor Trevor, I don’t think he got a very satisfactory answer from me. I decided to make monster noises and chase him to cover up my complete haplessness at answering his questions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ten days ago, I moved to England. I’ve been visiting England since I was nineteen. I’ve been a tourist, a student, and a worker here. Since 2009, when I played the Beverley Folk Festival, I’ve been traveling to Britain nearly every year for a musical tour. I’ve loved visiting Britain. And I’ve loved mainly living here for the last two and a half years. My Englishman is here and he’s a good enough reason for me to move anywhere in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But this particular border crossing was different because, when I crossed it this time, I began a seven year path to dual citizenship. And these are strange times to be considering what it means to be a citizen. I am an American citizen, and I am a British learner citizen. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">My family are all very concerned about my giving up my American citizenship – which I won’t be doing, thus dual citizenship – and the British Home Office has made it as trying and expensive as possible for me to pursue dual citizenship here. Some of my American fans perceive my London home as an incredibly dangerous big foreign city full of snares and bombs. And my British friends are exasperated by the mass shootings and gun-related deaths in the USA and wonder how anyone gets through the day there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Some of my American fans feel like I’ve abandoned my roots. Some British fans feel that I’ve come here to find my deeper roots.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I know that I am here because I surprised myself and plenty of other people by falling head over heels for an Englishman a couple of years ago. This is the natural course of things – to be moving here and starting a new life – and I have put my little paper boat full of poems, songs, and drawings into this course and the Englishman and I are towing it along the path by a silky red string.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When I was a girl, I dreamed of living by the ocean with Rachel, but I also dreamed of falling in love, getting married, filling a house with furniture . . . but then it all got a bit vague. It was really just an impression built out of television sitcoms, home decorating magazines, and the cosmic human push to pair up and procreate. I couldn’t actually imagine what kind of job I would have because I loved going to school so much and I loved making things. Maybe an art teacher? I also loved microscopes, stars, and math problems. An astronomer? An astrologer?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I loved to color, dance, sing, make up stories, sew, and bake biscuits. Is there a job for that? I think that is the job that I have – that I’ve created for myself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I never dreamed about having children. I never felt that capable or brave or reckless (depending on the circumstances) to be a mother. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">My adult life has looked very little like those vague dreams. Instead, I’ve traveled most of my life. I’ve fallen in and out of relationships. I’ve felt deeply bewildered, eerily calm, and uncontrollably ecstatic. I’ve buried a parent and I’ve buried friends. I’ve made friends and lost them. I’ve made enemies without even trying. I’ve been my own enemy. I’ve been rescued and I’ve rescued myself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But have I been a good citizen? What is it to be a citizen? Is it remembering the victorious dead? Is it recycling glass, paper, and plastic? Is it joining a church and taking meals to housebound strangers? Is it joining the army or taking guns to strangers? Is it running for office or running a soup kitchen?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Is England or America better? Is America or China more powerful? What can I say to Trevor? </span><br /><br /><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=d5a57be0d2&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="655259" height="599" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/_compresseds/36308ba6-3583-4e8c-ba01-7c944f794bf3.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 599px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /></span></a></div>
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<br /><span style="color: black;">What I keep coming back to is being a good citizen of my own tiny little country of myself. My Mom and I love a children’s book from the early 1900s called </span><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=c4d8e2ed90&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><em>Yourself and Your House Wonderful</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> about bodies and how to manage your own body properly. You can read the whole book thanks to the stunning </span><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=53469f9b3e&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Internet Archive</span></a><span style="color: black;">. There are all kinds of metaphors for how you keep yourself well and tidy in the same way you’d keep a house tidy. And though this may sound quaint, I think it’s terrific advice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Because answering a question like is England or America better is really too big. What shall I compare? The price of milk, murder rates, gross domestic product, obesity, life expectancy, or moss health? What makes a place the best? And to whom? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So, instead, because this is my letter, I’m going to think about when I am better – at my best. Because I still espouse the old fashioned notion that, at the end of the day, a nation is built of its citizens and if they are sick, tired, and poor, that nation will be too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I love brooms because I feel good when I use them. I sweep sweep sweep. (</span><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=9435b72e80&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">See the incredible broom museum that I visited in Jodhpur, India, here</span></a><span style="color: black;">.) I see the pile of dust and grit on the floor. I brush the detritus into a pan. I knock the pan into the trash can and goodbye dust. I think we need to do this for ourselves, too.<br /><br />We need a little nap. We need a good nights sleep. We need to clean off our desk and finally file away those old bills. We need to put our laundry away. We need to make our beds, wash the dishes, and take out the rubbish. We can do this in our houses, but we can also do this in our minds and hearts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We can say, “Dear heart, why are you holding on to this old worry? What if we just took a broom to that old cobweb of self doubt and shook it out onto the sidewalk.” Achoo!<br /><br />“Dear mind, why are you building up all of these barricades called failures? What if you had a little nap and then </span><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=43253b9a15&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">see how things look when you are rested</span></a><span style="color: black;">?” Zzzzzzz.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Because it may seem like pop psychology or like a “me” generation kind of statement, but I firmly believe that if we can’t get a grip on our own little countries of self, what hope do we have of collectively making a great nation of ourselves? There have been times when my own little country was at war with itself – depression. Or when my country won gold medals left and right – high school. Or when my country felt like it was having a nationwide festival – giving a concert. I also know that the pirouettes of my little country sent those people-countries around me into wars and festivals, too, and so on and so forth, world without end. Amen, amen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So, when I think of Trevor and his big questions about better and more powerful nations, what I want to say is look after your little person, Trevor. Rest and eat, make things and stretch, run and laugh, read and write, draw and swim, and always do these things. Resist ossification, domination, humiliation, exasperation, and big talk of nations. Let your little country spin beautifully. Let it rub like a purring cat up against the countries of your mother and father. Let it stand resolute in the presence of playground bullies. Let it dance around your third cousin Jeni when you find the perfect seashell. Do this always wherever you are and wherever you live, and those you live amongst will be well, too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Fellow citizens of planet Earth, I hope you find the perfect seashell this summer. May you stand resolute in the presence of playground bullies and spin so wonderfully that all they can do is lie down and take a nap.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Sleep, sleep, sleep,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">sweep, sweep, sweep</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Your friend,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Jeni</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">P.S. Yes, I sold the Airstream to people in Alaska who are retiring to the Ozarks! What a neat new adventure for the Airstream.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">P.P.S. News to come soon of my Airbnb in Nashville!</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="color: black;">And one more thing, my fan, Stuart, bought his wife, Helen, a Happy Summer present! What a guy. He found it in my <strong><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=a019077b36&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">shop</a></strong> where there are more Jeni-made gifts to be found. <em>Stuart says, “My wife loves the bag and it has been receiving many admiring looks and comments from her circle of friends. My stock is also dramatically on the rise amongst that circle as I’m now recognised as a man of great taste & deep feelings!”</em><br /><strong>This, too, could be you!</strong></span></span></div>
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<br />Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-88239509705286645782019-06-20T20:18:00.001+01:002019-06-20T20:18:11.846+01:00Help with my Airbnb description, please!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Welcome to Draper House – a quiet and quaint wonderland for musicians and vintage lovers. Built by Mr. Draper in 1912 for his family, this wood-framed house with a big ole porch has only seen three owners in 107 years! Current owner, songwriter and Appalachian Folk musician Jeni Hankins, shuttles between Nashville and London, and welcomes you to her home while she’s away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You’ll find all of the modern amenities like Google Fiber internet, a Smart Vizio TV, Apple TV, etc. But you’ll also feel like you’ve traveled back in time while surrounded by original woodwork and mantlepieces. Soak in the history while you play Jeni’s 1970’s Baldwin spinet piano, Seagull SG+ Folk guitar, Baby Taylor African-Bubinga-wood guitar, no-name 1930’s mandolin, and early 1900s open-back banjo. Have your own jam session on the old-fashioned porch where there are plenty of chairs and spots for drinks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As a touring musician herself, Jeni knows what a stress it can be to travel, especially to fly, with your instruments. But if you really love pickin’, it’s tough to be without them. So, as her guest, you won’t have to hem and haw about buying a flight case or playing overhead-bin roulette, just play her instruments and bring them to life while she’s gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">AND if you LOVE VINTAGE, you’ve come to a home that will get all of your ideas flowing. Set up a photo shoot on the Eastlake sofa, in the cowboy rocker, or in the clawfoot tub. Jeni’s front porch has been the set for many a photo shoot! You’ll find everything from tin doll houses to mini-matchstick cabins on her shelves. Plenty of these things she’s rescued from the hillsides and houses in her native Appalachia. Plus, East Nashville is absolutely chock-full of vintage shops, if you want to take goodies home!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Want to sit back and watch a movie or listen to music? Jeni has everything from a Columbia Grafonola to iHeart Radio, from VHS to Chromecast. Her house is full of vinyl records, DVDs, tapes, CDs, etc. Want more tunes? East Nashville is home to no less than three music shops, all of which have new and vintage vinyl sections. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Are you a bookworm? Jeni is too. She has everything from Dickens to Marilyn Monroe on her bookshelves, including a full set of The Oxford English Dictionary. Yep, all twenty volumes. Go ahead and look up that word you’ve always wondered about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you like to sew? Jeni’s grandmothers and mother taught her to sew and she rarely goes anywhere without a needle and thread. She has a fully working 1940’s Singer electric in its sewing table in the bedroom and a 1960’s Singer hand crank machine which she welcomes confident stitchers to use. Jeni uses the hand-crank machine to sing and sew in her concerts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Lots of paper, pens, pencils, scissors, tape, and a new wireless printer/copier/scanner for scribbling down ideas or printing off a letter to say you’re staying an extra week at Draper House!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Come and write a song here, write a novel, take a week to read good books, sew a quilt, or just sit out on the porch and watch the house sparrows and eastern cottontail rabbits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This neighborhood is QUIET and this is not a through street, so you’ll have plenty of calm, but if you’re looking for bright neon lights and plenty of live music, there are four buses that take you directly from Jeni’s street to downtown in ten minutes. Not a fan of the bus? Save on parking costs downtown and grab a ride with Uber or Lyft. Want some energy closer to the house? How about Five Points which is only four blocks away! It’s home to bars, restaurants, and the famous Five Spot music venue of the TV series Nashville. There’s plenty of free parking on the street in front of the house, so you can rent a car with confidence if you prefer to be your own chauffeur. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Prefer to walk or cycle? There are several grocery stores, a post office, a bank, eateries, the public library, vintage and record shops, hair salons, spas, gift shops, bars, churches, liquor stores, and even a big art supply shop within a 10 to 20 minute walk of Jeni’s house. No, really. It’s a super walkable neighborhood with sidewalks everywhere. And Jeni has two lockable bikes out on the porch which you are welcome to use. One is an adult trike with a basket for collecting supplies. And she also has a collapsible rolling shopping cart which you can take, if you’re on foot, to carry home your groceries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Want to bring friends? Draper House has one bedroom with a double bed, but there’s also a queen size air mattress and bedding available. Want to bring a lot of friends, but want your own space? There’s a huge Airbnb next door and many others literally moments away. Come as a group, but carve some space out for yourself. Why not?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Jeni has spent the last twelve years of her life touring and staying with friends and fans as well as in hostels, hotels, motels, and campgrounds. It’s her aim to make a space for you in her home that will feel just as nice as her favorite places to stay. Welcome to Draper House!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">PLEASE SHARE: Due to my permanent relocation to the UK, I am selling my beloved and well-traveled 2006 Limited Edition Bambi 16ft Quiksilver 75th Anniversary Airstream Travel Trailer. It was my childhood dream to travel with one of these silver wonders and I was blessed to do that very thing for ten years! But, it’s impractical for me to take this beauty across the ocean to England and it would be remiss of me to let it sit lonely in my Nashville backyard. This Bambi is ready for new adventures!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Want to travel? Want to camp? Want a tiny guest house? Want a writer’s retreat? Want a super cool backdrop for your music video? You can not do better than this adorable and super-stylish trailer. If you take it out on the road, be prepared to show it to tons of random strangers in parking lots and campgrounds across America. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I hope that you will find all that you need to know about this LIMITED EDITION AIRSTREAM below. Any questions? Message me! Or email me at <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</span></a>. Please no time wasters or curiosity seekers. I am not just being a “busy person” when I say that I have a lot on my plate right now. So, I want a simple, clean sale with no tricky stuff! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">First, I’m offering a $2000 discount if you can complete the sale and take the Airstream with you before July 1. So, anytime between now and June 30th, if you are here in Nashville with the money and your vehicle, and you take the trailer away, you will pay $2000 less. You will pay $33,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Second, the price is firm. I despise haggling and will not be worn down. I have given my price TONS of thought and I know that it is fair. I have no interest in trying to get as much out of people as possible, but I will not undersell this trailer. It is used, but not abused. It is rare and very few of them show up on the secondhand market. You know how Loretta Lynn says, “Don’t come home a-drinkin’ with lovin’ on your mind?” Well, don’t come to my house with hagglin’ on your mind, either!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">2006 Airstream Bambi (16 ft), 75th Anniversary Quiksilver Edition for quick sale: $35,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">AIRSTREAM ONLY MADE 100 OF THESE TRAILERS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Mine has most of the available upgrades and options, including audio upgrade with multi-CD changer, CD player, mini-jack, DVD, LCD TV on wrap around mounting, wrap around windows front and rear (these are AMAZING when you are camping – the view, the cross-breeze), air conditioner with heat strip, 12,000 BTU furnace, electric hitch jack, refrigerator with freezer, curb side awning, Fantastic Fan with rain sensor, spare tire and mount. No solar panels, but it could be fitted for those. I no longer have the subwoofer and wireless speaker, but wireless speakers have come a long way since 2006! That speaker was the size of a soccer ball! If you want the specs, please see the spec sheet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I am also offering, at no extra cost, two spare Blue Rhino LP Gas tanks, if you’d like them. I am also including a lightly used battery charger. I can also offer at no cost a futon mattress which fits the bed area. It is clean, but the cover, though washed thoroughly, retains some staining from reckless drinking of cups of tea in bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">SOLD IN AS-IS CONDITION. I WILL DO NO REPAIRS AND I MAKE NO GUARANTEES.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This trailer has seen </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">a lot of use</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">. It’s been across the USA and back many times (seven?), and up and down the coasts and the middle, plus into Ontario and back, clocking nearly 200,000 towed miles. There were many tire blow-outs, one of which took out the waste system which I replaced. I’ve had the wheel bearings re-packed at least once, so it’s probably time for another go. The furnace stopped working almost right away and was replaced under warranty. I’ve had the galley floor replaced by Airstream twice, once due to a rain leak through the refrigerator vent, once due to a failure in the water storage tank system. I have replaced a quarter of the under-the-bed storage floor due to a leak in the window above. I have re-caulked the window and areas around that part of the storage bay floor (passenger side). Airstream also replaced the back center window which was shattered in Pennsylvania and one of the front window guards which blew off in Texas. Dozens of other tiny repairs! Many many tires. The current tires are from 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Because my towing vehicle bit the dust in January of 2016, this Airstream has been winterized and stationary since then. I cleaned the entire inside thoroughly with a magic eraser sponge at that point since my diesel tow vehicle left a thin skim of grey particulate all over the white interior. That worked great and it’s now white and clean again! I have washed the outside twice a year since 2016. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have not run most of the appliances since 2016. The hot water heater was drained and the plumbing system, too, as part of the winterization process. The refrigerator was working well as of February of this year (2019) when I turned it off to be greener. I haven’t used the furnace, air conditioner, or gas cooking burners since 2016. The passenger side speaker over the bed area works intermittently and has been that way for most of my trailer’s life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I am selling the trailer AS-IS because I cannot vouch for all of these systems. And I am not a technician and cannot attest to structural integrity, nitty-gritty, etc. If I weren’t moving permanently to the UK, I would be buying another towing vehicle and heading out on the road with it myself, but that is all I can say about it’s road-readiness. I would strongly recommend taking it for a check-up since it has been sitting for three years. I would do that my own self before I went out with it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have looked after this Airstream over the years and repaired any issues that arose. Most of those repairs were done by Airstream in Jackson Center, Ohio, at the mothership. Other repairs were done as needed on the road or at Camping World in Nashville, TN. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I am also selling the trailer AS-IS because I will not haggle with you if you come and say, well, there’s some staining on this part of the tiny closet floor. I have taken the condition into account when setting the price. This trailer was used, loved, and went everywhere across America. It’s not a showpiece that was kept in a garage, even though it is a collector’s item. Be prepared for signs of use. AND be prepared to realize that owning an Airstream or any trailer means maintenance and the unexpected. The number of times I thought all was going swimmingly only to find a soft spot in the floor (water tank leak) or I heard a big boom (blow-out #8) were many and various – even when the trailer just sits, it keeps you on your toes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That said, I am presenting you with all of the information that I have at this point in my Airstream’s life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have retained all of the original appliances and most of the decor ( I don’t have the original mattress or bedding). I do have the doormat, original manual, two Airstream tumblers, and two Airstream coffee mugs. I have the Airstream keychain, keys to the many locks, and the Airstream canvas zipper bag with paperwork and manuals for all of the appliances. I also have the original sales receipt. I will pass all of this on to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I own the title free and clear and I will also transfer this to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Please do not ask me about towing. I have no idea if your car/suv/truck/bicycle will pull this trailer. I am not a towing expert. I pulled it with a 2005 Jeep Liberty Diesel and felt like my vehicle was always pushed to its limit. I used tow bars to stabilize the trailer which came in really handy during those tire blow-outs. That’s all I can say. Check with your vehicle manufacturer and read the forums. I drive a Fiat 500 on the other side of the road now, so I am not your best bet for towing advice! I do not have tow bars or a hitch receiver anymore for this trailer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I hope the photos are helpful and I will be glad to answer any reasonable questions. I will accept payment by cash in person OR by bank cashier’s check in person. The check must clear my bank before I hand over the keys and the title and you take the Airstream. I am reluctant to get into bank transfers, etc, because of all of the scams, etc. So, if you want to do a transfer, we will have to think hard about that and the Airstream definitely won’t be going anywhere until the money is in my account.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Please contact me at <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</span></a> if you are interested! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Here’s a YouTube of what this model of Airstream looked like pretty much new, though this is a used one. NOTE: This is NOT my Airstream (see photos for my Airstream), so I don’t have the bedding pictured in this video. But, otherwise, my Airstream is the same and you can see the awning extended. My awning is the same! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWBQqa1mwMI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWBQqa1mwMI</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This Airstream has had a good life, full of adventure! This is your chance to experience the travel trailer life in a limited edition, super stylish, ultra-portable, classy Airstream!</span></div>
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Two LP gas tanks under the front cover.</div>
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Water and Septic hoses included. Also a septic hose rest and washing up bowl. Plus some hitch-ball grease and sundries.</div>
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Original curtains have been washed and ironed. A few light sun-stains on the curtains, but they are in pretty great shape! Quiksilver reading lights in great shape. Need a bulb for one.</div>
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TV was working as of 2016. Listened to the radio the other day. Works great except for the one pesky speaker above the bed on the passenger side. Always been intermittent.<br />
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Got rid of the Airstream issue mattress and replaced with a much more comfortable futon mattress (not pictured) which I'm happy to pass on to you. </div>
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Tiny closet! Can't believe I kept all of my stage costumes in here.<br />
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I always got tickled when people asked me if the refrigerator was a dishwasher!</div>
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Hot water heater control and fresh water/black water meter on top left above sink. There is only one waste-water tank which combines the grey and black water. The sensor has never worked properly for the waste-water. A common problem with these. The fresh water sensor is reliable when the trailer is level.</div>
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I had the toilet mechanism replaced at some point along the line.<br />
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Yep, the usual Airstream corrosion on both tail-lights.<br />
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AND THE SPEC SHEET. See my long letter above to understand which optional features I have and do not have!</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">“I’ve been waiting on water for 68 years,” Narcie Smith said in a 1998 <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=711ec89d6e&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">interview</a> with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. “My children had to carry water in buckets. And I washed on a board.” – Narcie Smith, my great-grandmother</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">My cousin Rachel had long straight blonde hair, a cute little nose covered lightly in freckles in the summer, and the prettiest ankles you’ve ever seen. She was two years older than me and she was my best friend when I was a girl – she still is. Every summer, when my sister and I would visit Mawmaw, I commenced our visit by asking when I was going to see Rachel. She lived two hours away in Kingsport, Tennessee, but sometimes she would come to Mawmaw’s for a few days or I would get to go to Kingsport to see her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">One summer, her family was visiting up at Mawmaw’s house and Rachel and I got in an argument with her brother Charles. He wanted to get into the bathroom and we were curling our hair and talking and laughing the way we did in the bathroom. Charles got so mad at us that he started yelling, “Mawmaw! Aunt Ann! Rachel and Jeni are using up all of the water!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">You never saw two girls rush out of a bathroom in such a state. Rachel and I ran right into the kitchen and pleaded our innocence, showing off our neatly curled hair as proof that our time in the bathroom had nothing to do with using up the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, up on Smith Ridge, we didn’t have much in the way of running water. <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=302366f1ce&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">The water in our pipes came out of a cracked cistern which stored rainwater. </a>The water we drank came out of a well in front of the house. In the kitchen, we had a tin bucket and a metal dipper out of which we took cool drinks. We washed dishes and laundry and ourselves very carefully using the water from the cistern. Any cistern water we used was collected in dishpans and buckets for watering plants, washing clothes, or flushing the toilet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">In the summer, the cistern often dried out, so Mawmaw would have to pay the fire department to haul a “load” of water up the mountain and fill our cistern. This was expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time I graduated college, Mawmaw had all of the running water we could use, coming right out of the taps in a big rush. We could take a shower in it, drink it, and wash our laundry with it. In an interview with the <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=7f5736cdaf&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Appalachian Regional Commission</a>, Mawmaw said, “[Before we got water,] when you did a load of wash, you had to measure. Now you're living like a rich person. You're living in the same house, but you feel like a rich person. You really do.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Mawmaw and the other residents of Smith Ridge pulled together in 1998 to lay pipe from the head of Smith Ridge, where the city water connected, to The End of the World. Those who were strong enough dug ditches and drilled through rock. Mawmaw coordinated hot meals and cold drinks for a baker’s dozen of workers five days a week for three months. The first governor to ever visit Smith Ridge came to watch my great-grandmother, Narcie Smith, open the first tap on Smith mountain connected to city water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Even still, when I go to Mawmaw’s house now, no-one is wasting water. The plants are watered from the dishwater and most of the other water-saving measures are just as they always were. And here in London, where I now live, the Englishman and I do just the same. We carry the dishwater out to the balcony and give the rose, the basil, and the chard a drink. When I run the hot water tap for a shower, I catch the cold water in a bucket and use it to hand wash clothes or wash my paint brushes or flush the toilet or water the plants. I do this because of Mawmaw and because I will never forget when Rachel and I cried because we were called water wasters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was a kid at Mawmaw’s, we didn’t have recycling trucks that came up on the mountain to collect our plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and paper waste. The men burned paper in a big fire barrel, but mainly we used it for myriad purposes. We turned plastic bottles into plant feeders and flower pots. And we put our aluminum cans into a crushing contraption which it was our childhood joy to operate. This wall-mounted device took a Coke can and smooshed it into a flat metal pancake. We took these pancakes in a big bag down to the metal man who also bought <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=6dcc7ebde4&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">ginseng</a>and <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=eb7f75fe65&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">morel mushrooms</a> from people clever enough to find them in the woods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">After we went with Mawmaw to sell our metal, we would take the money to yard sales and buy clothes or Barbies. When I was in Nashville in January, I collected all of the scrap metal from my yard and around the house and I made $7 at the scrap yard. I took this down to the <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=f8bb885a76&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Goodwill</a> Outlet and got a lamp, lampshade, colander, cutting board, and a quilt for my AirBnB (coming soon!). All for $7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently, I’ve been making <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=5a2f198318&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">linocuts</a> and <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=5b457d7944&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">block prints</a>. Some of the most useful printing tools that I have are cereal box cardboard, wood offcuts from making shelves, an odd soup spoon, bottle caps, and a piece of refrigerator safety glass. All of these are part of household detritus – the refrigerator safety glass I found in a pile of trash by the road. The Englishman and I had a big leak in the floor of our bathroom, so the vinyl floor covering had to be cut away. I’ve discovered that I can turn the old vinyl over, cut it into shapes, and make “rubber” stamps out of it. I made the little pink house above on the left with the floor vinyl stamp. Using these free, discarded, repurposed, old things reminds me of living up on the mountain with Mawmaw where nothing was discarded without first being examined for alternative uses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">On the mountain, clothes were never thrown away, but always handed down or on to someone else in the family. Old shoes became garden shoes. Old hats became beach or garden hats. Threadbare clothes became rags, worn out rags became firelighters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was ten, my Dad’s half-sister Grayson, sent me a giant box of clothes all the way from New Mexico. Grayson, who was four years older than me, had short blonde hair like Twiggy, learned French in High School, and listened to British pop bands. She might as well have been a movie star where I was concerned. So, when her box arrived, it was like Christian Dior had waltzed into our Boston apartment with a team of models in the latest fashions. I’ve <strong>never</strong> had as much enjoyment from new-bought clothes as I have from that box of hand-me-downs.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif;">A friend told me a story about when he was a boy in the northwest of England. His teacher decided the children should decorate boxes with shells to make treasure boxes. She would provide the shells, if the children would bring a shoebox to school to decorate. He went home and asked his mother for a shoebox only to find that there was no such box and no suitable alternative in the house. This seems inconceivable in a Western world where cardboard boxes surround us as we adopt more online shopping into our homes. There wasn't so much packaging in the 1950's when my friend was a boy. Now, the recycling bins in our London neighborhood heave and explode with cardboard boxes. But a lot of packaging is just thrown on the street or goes into landfills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">As the Englishman and I walk around our neighborhood, we always say that the discarded tables, beds, bed frames, mattresses, plastic bags, cardboard boxes, clothes, toys, baby carriages, bicycle wheels, lamps, etc, would never last in Morocco. We went there for Christmas two years ago and there I saw the strongest recycling culture I’ve ever witnessed outside of Smith Ridge. When we were walking around the streets of Fes, a man opened a pair of giant corrugated metal doors to reveal a recycling yard. A few dozen men were disassembling mattresses. On another tiny street, a man passed us on a motorbike which was stacked with dozens of ripstop bags waiting to be turned into spice containers, mattress stuffing, rugs, and countless other things. One of our favorite things to notice were the chairs sat on by shopkeepers. Many of them showed replacement seats, backs, and legs. This gave them a patchwork look that reminded me of Mawmaw’s quilts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">I just found an old copy of the Financial Times in our living room which I think I will use to make plant pots and a child’s mobile, and to clean up printmaking ink. The paper came with a style magazine where the cover reads, “how to spend it/men’s style edition.” How to spend it. But how should we “spend it?” Spend our time, our money, our shared resources. Maybe don’t spend it. Save it. Slow it down. Repair it. Trade it. Exchange it. Or if we must spend it, spend it with care. Spend it in a way that counts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">I found this sewing kit a few weeks ago. It says in four words what I’ve been saying in 1700 words.</span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="545727" height="600" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/_compresseds/f5256367-c0cf-450d-8e97-01ebb7a62567.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 600px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">How can we help our home, planet Earth? I think Mawmaw always knew. She waited on water for 68 years, but even when she got the water up to the mountain, <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=dcb7e7016e&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">she treated it like liquid diamonds</a>. And it is. Without it, we are nothing but dust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve been thinking about all of this every day for some time now and I really appreciate you reading along with me. Below, you’ll find a list of some of the things that seem to work for me. I could go on and on and, of course, <strong>I’m not the queen of recycling or right-ness. I am mending my ways regarding the Earth every day. </strong>Let me know what works for you. My friend Fiona has some <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=be9576f1f3&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">great ideas in this video</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish you a Happy Home Planet Earth Day and I hope to wish you many many many many many many many . . . . more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Love, your friend,</span></div>
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Ideas for mending my ways.</h2>
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<br />Recycle everything possible.</div>
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What can’t be recycled, donate.</div>
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What can’t be donated, give away.<br />What can’t be given away, dispose of responsibly.</div>
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Sell things I don’t want or can’t use.</div>
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Compost food waste or participate in a neighborhood compost collection.</div>
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Give unused food to someone else. Have you head of the food-sharing revolution called <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=a2ac2f556f&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Olio</a>? Don’t have Olio, maybe we can start something like it among friends.</div>
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Use the library, buy used books, share books, DVDs, CDs, etc.</div>
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Have a clothing exchange party or an anything exchange party.</div>
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Know someone who would look great in something you own, but don’t wear? Send it to them as a surprise. </div>
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Store your food in glass containers that you already have in your fridge instead of buying plastic storage containers. Thanks to my friend Louise for this tip!</div>
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Use cloth napkins.</div>
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Use tea towels and dish towels rather than paper towels. They are easy to wash in your saved water.</div>
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Buy your clothes at Goodwill, charity shops, yard sales, boot fairs (UK version of a flea market), or auctions. I bought fourteen skirts for 10 pounds ($13 dollars) at the <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=5317c82612&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">1818 Auction House</a>. Five I can wear, nine I can sell or give away. Wash or rinse them when you get home, before wearing.<br /><br />Make art out of discarded things. </div>
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Buy your household furnishings at auctions or charity shops or Goodwill when you can. For people who have allergies, like me, this is easy for tables and chairs, but not as easy for sofas.</div>
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Think about how you can use something that looks like trash for a useful purpose. I’ve found washing up bowls, laundry baskets, step stools, wall hooks, crystal port glasses, chairs, shoes, and teddy bears by the side of the road. <u>Sometimes, all things need is a good cleaning.</u></div>
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<strong>Buying, giving, and receiving things rather than participating in traditional commerce is revolutionary because you are creating an economy of exchange that has little to do with the BIG GUYS. You cut them out of the loop and make a loop of your own which supports communities, small businesses, charities, friends, and our big green and blue home planet Earth.</strong></div>
I am thinking of a dozen more things . . . but I have to stop and get outside on this sunny day!</td></tr>
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“The Mile End Waste, was a place off the Whitechapel Road where the flotsam and jetsam that no one wanted any longer was sold. You could buy almost anything there: clothing, boots, bicycles, tools, pictures and furniture of every description, all displayed on the ground or stacked on barrows. During the week, fruit and vegetable barrows lined the road but on Saturdays it was crowded with everything imaginable.”<br /><span style="color: lavenderblush;"><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=8eb5bd20ae&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">– Grace Foakes, Between High Walls</a>, early 1900's</span></div>
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Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-25094859621671462702019-04-09T12:15:00.000+01:002019-04-09T12:15:24.755+01:00Mawmaw's and The End of the World<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: 18px; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 26px;">The End of the World</span></div>
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Thank you for all of the great letters, comments, and notes in response to my last essay about A Good Quiet Set of Directions. If you missed it, you can read it <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=b793a87505&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />Now, I bring you 1500 words on getting around the curve that leads to The End of the World.</div>
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A derelict house near Mawmaw's.</h4>
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“There were no lessons that day. Nanda spent the morning walking about the garden with her father and mother. They could go wherever they liked, down to the farm or over to the orchard or right round the long walk that was called “The End of the World.” – <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=1b40e7930f&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Frost in May</em></a>, <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=e414aeac46&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Antonia White</a></div>
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When I was a little girl staying with Mawmaw up on Smith Ridge, we had a place called The End of the World. Back then, Smith Ridge Road was about thirteen miles long and ended in a dirt track, which rumor had it, lead to Grundy. Grundy, which only conjured the words “grunt” and “grub” in my childhood brain, seemed no place to be dreaming about and held no fairytale allure for me. Mawmaw’s house was about four miles along Smith Ridge Road off the main road which came up from “town” – “town” being Richlands where there were hospitals, grocery stores, <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=18afd5e3bd&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Magic Mart</a>, the bank, the gas station, Wendy’s, and Hurst Scott Funeral home and its glowing purple lamps.</div>
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My sister, Sarah, and I made the trip up and down from town to Mawmaw’s house every day in Mawmaw’s Buick. Mawmaw would slip off her high heeled shoes which matched her Sears work outfit and slip her stocking toes into her house slippers and sail that Buick across those mountain roads, climbing steadily, sometimes at breakneck speed, racing the train that crossed Highway 67 four times on our journey home. My great grandmother, Narcie, had cornbread in the oven and fresh tomatoes and green beans on the table. We didn’t have time for trains.</div>
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I knew all of the curves, dips in the road, broken down outbuildings, burnt-out cars, and tabernacles of prayer from Mawmaw Margie’s house in town to Mawmaw Shreve’s house up on the mountain. But four miles along Smith Ridge, just past the Friendly Chapel Church, for me, the road stopped, because <em>beyond</em> Mawmaw’s house stretched The End of the World.</div>
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The End of the World was strange. I’d heard about it. One farmer had an emu. One man had a house made of tin signs and license plates. There were <em>other</em>churches than the one that we went to. No hellers. Church people who believed that earth was hell, so there was no hell to be going to when you died, just a Heaven for the right people. Women who wore long sleeves and long skirts with high-necked blouses, and who never cut their hair, went to church at The End of the World. Mean dogs who would chew your leg off lived at The End of the World.<br /><br /><img data-file-id="527243" height="412" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/images/b0ec7998-c5ab-4b3b-891b-4ae276fda59c.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /> </div>
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The End of the World began around a curve just past Mawmaw’s house and I never wanted to see around that curve. The thought of it made me queasy. Occasionally, Mawmaw had to go a short distance around that curve to pick Betty up for church. If I was in the car, I put my hand over my eyes and just peeked through my fingers as if I was (not) watching a horrible medical procedure on television. The End of the World was strange and I didn’t want to know anything more about it.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago, I was lying in bed in the dawn hours listening to BBC Radio 4 and lapsing into sleep when I heard the musical voice of Irish writer <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=606a6b754e&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Padraig O Tuama</a> giving the <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=5273a82141&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">prayer for the day</a>. He said that in Biblical Greek one meaning of “strange” was “elsewhere.” Elsewhere can be a terrifying place just like The End of the World was for me.</div>
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One day, when I was in my twenties, Mr Kyle (Mawmaw’s fella) and Mawmaw thought it would be nice to take a ride down to the end of Smith Ridge to see the emu farm. And, as though there was nothing extraordinary about it, I got in the car with them and found myself being driven to The End of the World. As we went along, Mawmaw pointed out where Betty’s house used to be which was bought and blown up by the gas company and replaced by a gas well. She pointed out where my Aunt Fannie once had her general store and told me how Aunt Fannie could make a dress for someone just by looking at them.<br /><br /><img data-file-id="527247" height="412" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/images/138bb02b-b5b3-401d-86f8-ead69db37019.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><br />She pointed out where there used to be a church where Aunt Fannie and her sister Aunt Nannie went – they were my great-grandfather’s sisters. She said that Aunt Nannie once fell against the church’s wood stove, placing her hand right on top of it, but wasn’t burnt and this was a sign of blessing from God. We got to a place along the road where we could see clear over to West Virginia which was called The View. And I got to see where Elsie Brown lived – Elsie Brown, Mawmaw Narcie’s best friend, who wore her knee highs rolled down around her ankles like little donuts and walked miles clear from her house way down along Smith Ridge to Mawmaw’s nearly every day, but never ever got skinny no matter how far she walked. And we saw the <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=3667919a30&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">emu</a> – the second largest bird in the world – right there on Smith Ridge.</div>
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After that day, I walked out to The View whenever I liked. I found a cemetery where my great great great grandfather’s Confederate grave stared back at me wondering where I’d been and when I would write its song. I found Barbie dolls, toothbrushes, and old Coke bottles buried in the clay hillside and I walked inside the shell of Aunt Fannie’s store wishing she could make me a <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=3815fe6d4c&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">feed sack dress</a> just by looking at me. I still took a stick with me because there were dogs that looked like they would chew my leg off, but they never had a chance because Mawmaw’s dog went with me on my rambles just to show off.</div>
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The End of the World didn’t seem like elsewhere anymore.</div>
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I used to call my Dad nearly every day before that day when he went elsewhere. Sometimes, especially in the spring, I’d tell him that I was feeling apocalyptic. This was the shorthand codeword we’d found to describe the thrumming in my heart and head that said change is coming, forces are on the move, something is surfacing which I felt I needed to gather strength to face, perhaps even to face down. Today, I was walking along the canal towpath in Carnforth in North Lancashire and what looked like brown sticks a few days ago were covered with tiny white balls, some of which had already willed themselves into delicate little flowers. Change is here. There are times we long for change, we tempt it into our lives, we wish and wish and wish for it, but there are times when changes happen to us, around us, and we are swept up in it. Spring can make me feel this way. Sometimes, spring’s clock seems to be pulling me along, turning brown dead-looking sticks into daytime fireworks.</div>
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Sometimes I have found the energy of spring excruciating like it was pulling me by my hair from the safe ground lined with woolen sweaters, open fires, and hot drinks. Its energy whispering to me that I had no say, but demanding that I slough off my bear-like winter sleepiness and awake and be a firework. Dad seemed to know all of this when I called him to say I felt apocalyptic. I didn’t want to see around the curve that lead to The End of the World.<br /><br /><img data-file-id="527231" height="412" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/images/8e06641b-9676-4bdf-9e19-4c670e8e308c.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></div>
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I said to my Englishman last week, when the news was especially awful, that I felt like we were living at the end of the world. To Brexit or not to Brexit, New Zealand gunman, mendacious politicians, famine in Yemen, sharia law in Brunei, whales strangled by plastics. If I didn’t have a degree in the fall of the Roman Empire, I might be able to kid myself. But lawsy beesy, as Mawmaw Margie said, what a world!</div>
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And then Padraig O Tuama said that in Biblical Greek “apocalyptic” meant “uncovering.” Now that it’s April, the wild things are throwing off their covers and springing around the curve of winter. Padraig O Tuama reminds us, “Our world inclines itself toward flourishing even if we don’t.” He prays, “God, give us strength to be brave in days when it feels like everything is ending.”</div>
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And I pray, “God, give us courage to look around the curve that leads to what seems like The End of the World because, around that curve, there might be a view to another world, there might be a woman who can clothe you anew, there might be a woman who can touch fire without being burnt, there might be a mean ole dog or two, but at the end you may glimpse a bird of paradise.”</div>
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If you, too, are feeling apocalyptic or, if you’ve already pulled your summer clothes out of your closet and you are ready to go, I send you smooth sailing and a nice Buick to get you there in comfort. If you want to get there quickly, let Mawmaw do the driving, her speed on mountain curves is legendary.</div>
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Jeni</div>
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Peggy Seeger! YES!</h3>
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I am confessing a deep addiction to this record, <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=70cba3be67&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Peggy Alone</a>, and this outfit. I found it on vinyl with the super nifty booklet. Folk combustion girl crush! Three cheers for <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=d4d611c781&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Peggy Seeger</a>! I'm just picking up my copy of her autobiography, <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=1cc1533640&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>First Time Ever</em></a>, which came out last year. </div>
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Happy February, Friends!</div>
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I’m just back from the Guitar town, Music City USA, Nashville, Tennessee, where the Englishman and I have been putting the shine on my East Nashville house so that I can offer it as a vintage vacation home. Here I am sorting out my stuff.</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Things get messier before they get tidy, don't they?</span></strong></h4>
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This was the office supplies and tape moment. In all, I think I found eleven pairs of normal scissors in the house plus pinking shears (3), garden scissors (2), and craft scissors with nifty edging effects (7).</div>
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Have I every mentioned “the pen” before? When I was a kid staying with Mawmaw up on Smith Ridge in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, I liked to answer the phone for my grandmothers. Later, when I was the student receptionist at Davidson College, this childhood training came in handy. But at Mawmaw’s, if I had to take a message, then I used a pad of paper and “the pen” which sat on the telephone table – paean for the telephone table to be written. Perhaps, I should call “the pen” The Pen because it was the <em>only</em> one in the house. Usually, it came from a bank or a gas station in Richlands. If someone moved The Pen from the telephone table, a crisis ensued. The Pen was usually one of those pens with no cap and the white eraser – an eraser that never worked, but made the paper a mess. Do you remember those? There is a similar story about tape up on Smith Ridge, but I’ll save that one for another time . . . </div>
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I tend to think the yearly summertime childhood crisis of losing The Pen and instigating a frantic search through drawers, handbags, and Bibles was the direct cause of my scissor, pen, tape, glue, and general school supplies habit. When I used to be singing on the road all of the time and I started to feel overwhelmed, a visit to any grocery store or general store school supplies or craft section had a calming effect. Sending a letter covered in stamps was also a great balm. I found a lot of stamps in Nashville, too.</div>
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Even given our considerable efforts, the Englishman and I did not finish the task of turning my house into an officially rentable space. It’s nearly there, but the finishing touches and AirBnB paperwork will have to wait a few months. For now, my vintage home is providing a cozy retreat for a good friend. Do you need a retreat in Nashville between now and early May? If so, <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com?subject=I%20want%20a%20Nashville%20retreat" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">get in touch</a> and lets see what we can do?</div>
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I am back in Londontown and getting ready for my <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=f912ee2e88&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">second concert of the year on February 26th</a> – a collaboration with External Donut Presents at the Hope and Anchor pub in Islington. The folks at External Donut say we’ll have poetry reading, strummy folk, singing and sewing from me, and folky pop music at the end. I haven’t really done anything quite like this since my high school talent show where I sang the “ba pas” on a Troggs song. If you’d like to come along, I’d be tickled.</div>
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I will be playing more concerts this year and I'm putting together my calendar which I will post later this spring. I plan on doing most of my touring in the summer and fall. If you’d like to host a house concert or community concert in Britain, Canada, the USA, or anywhere else for that matter (thank you to my listeners in Israel and Norway!), then please <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com?subject=Concert%3F" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">write to me</a> and I will see about arranging my touring schedule to suit us all.<br /><br /><img data-file-id="432539" height="200" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/images/29d24293-79dd-4d76-aaaf-a545e28ed599.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 200px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 200px;" width="200" /><br /><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is what happens to your hair when you re-stuff a futon.</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: dimgrey;">I’ve brought my mountain dulcimer back from Tennessee, so I am excited to start reading Jean Ritchie’s Dulcimer Book and hearing what I can learn. I also got an electric piano for Christmas and if I practice practice practice, I’ve been promised a hulking wooden one, so I’m going to tilt my dulcimer and metronome at this jet-lag and play some music.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: dimgrey;">Thank you for the notes and messages you’ve been sending in response to my newsletter. I am seeing if I can write one each month, so your encouragement cheers me along.</span></span></div>
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Come along on Tuesday, February 26th, to the Hope and Anchor in Islington (London) for a night of music and poetry. Strummy guitar music, me, pop music at the end, and poetry in the betweens. 5 pound cover. Events begin at 7, I'll probably go on after 8. Hope and Anchor, N1 1RL. </div>
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December comes just once a year and seems like a whole other kind of month on the heels of two weeks in India.</h1>
<br /><img data-file-id="304739" height="450" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/images/353f7d56-6070-4ae3-972f-9d294c94425d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 450px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /><br /><br />Hello, dear friends! Since I last wrote to you, I have been sewing up many many cushions and handbags for a Christmas Art Market – more about that below! In the middle of the sewing, I took myself off to India for two weeks where I joined my friend Robyn Raines, owner of <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=b1d3caac72&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">Whitetop Yoga</a> in Abingdon, Virginia, for an experience of a lifetime. How two gals from a tiny corner of southwest Virginia ended up in Rajasthan together is a mystery even to us in some ways, but it seemed like a great place to start our conversation about a musical collaboration involving her great-grandfather, my musical heritage, and our mutual love of our home county of Tazewell, Virginia (more about that next year!).<div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">
<img data-file-id="304895" height="882" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/images/d2ace815-c521-4dd9-9d0b-0d11a1e532b9.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 882px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /><br /><br />First, the scoop on the art market! If you've seen me in concert, you will know that I've been traveling with my own miniature craft market on tour for years. Well, this weekend, I'll be showing my work alongside other artists for the first time at Crofts Farmhouse in the tiny village of Leasgill, Cumbria, at the home of maker <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=43bcb3f424&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">Jan Huntley-Peace</a>. I wish everyone could come to Cumbria because you would love this corner of England where the hills roll and the trees bend in the wind just like they do back home in Jewell Ridge. We're a thousand feet or so higher up in Jewell Ridge, but that's just to keep the coal from settling on our sheets and hair.<br /><br />A note if you can come along . . . Jan's house is on the right as you go along the little road from St Peter's church in Heversham to Leasgill. Google maps and your sat nav will put it other places. She has a small sign outside her gate. Mind your step because the stone walkway is slippy from all of this rain. Their house is LOVELY and was built before 1600 with beams from a ship!<br /><br />If you can't come to the art market, I will be putting all of my unsold items on my <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=af6a5a3f2e&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">bandcamp</a> site early next week in case you'd like to give a one-of-a-kind Jeni-made gift to yourself or someone good this season!<br /><br /><img data-file-id="304931" height="450" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/_compresseds/0d9d3da8-d35f-44ed-b40a-508a9e37645f.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 450px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /><br /><br />Now, India. When I was about eight, I wrote a school report on Elephants, Indian Elephants, and I have just always wanted to go there in the way that you think "One day I'd like to go to Alaska, or New Zealand, or Southwest Virginia." Well, I've gone and done it, as Mawmaw would say, and I really can't properly express how super, how magical, how provoking my visit was. And, of course, I only saw one small part of one state in India – Jodhpur in Rajasthan. Why Jodhpur? My friend Robyn was going there to design a retreat for 2019 and is collaborating with water conservationists and yoga teachers there. I thought that I may as well start somewhere and I'd always wanted to spend more time with Robyn, so why not in India?<br /><br />Jodhpur, known as the blue city because of all of the blue painted housed in the old city, turned out to be a perfect place to visit not just because of the 15th century fort or the mountains of textiles, but because the people were completely welcoming and adopted us into their lives like family. I felt it was like Jewell Ridge on the other side of the world, especially because Robyn and I attended all of the family celebrations and rituals of a five-day Indian wedding. So, thank you very much to Robyn for inviting along this blonde-headed gal whose exotic skin and hair meant hundreds of selfies interrupting our progress from one end of town to the other! And thank you to all of the Indian people – the ones that I met briefly, like the former Parlimentarian on the plane, and the ones that I think of as family (Ba!) – for making my childhood dream come true in technicolor.<br /><br /><img data-file-id="304955" height="600" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/images/65ba218b-9c7e-4c93-ac19-4c83f2ea6e21.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 600px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /><br /><br />So, how strange to come back to a very rainy and cold London full of Christmas lights glittering through windows and invitations to carol singing and art markets. All over the world, people are living in patterns and swells so different from our own with their big events of the year coming along when our year rests for a moment. We can easily forget that our calendar is one of many, our rush and excitement peaks at a time of quiet or reflection for someone else. Dad called this the great wheel and he said it can't turn if we're all on one side of it. I will never forget being on the other side for a little while.<br /><br />I wish you goodness and kindness, my friends.<br /><br />Your singer and needlewoman,<br /><br />Jeni<br /><br />You can always write to me at <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com?subject=Note%20from%20your%20newsletter" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</a>.<br /><br />You can always buy my records and Jeni & Billy back catalog at my <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=61b82278de&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">bandcamp</a> store where artists get the lion's share of the sale!<br /><br />My website is <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=f8b955134e&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><img data-file-id="304947" height="450" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78/_compresseds/34946b05-31fd-467a-b209-cfbdd1e0142e.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 450px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /></div>
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<br />1500 Words on the Circus, Cueball's Pool Hall, and Hearing Yourself Sing.<br /><br />On Friday, the Englishman and I were waiting on the roofer to give forth on the water trickling down our upstairs bedroom wall. While we waited, we played three games of pool – I lost all the games – and listened to the soundtrack for <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=ca236d4541&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">“Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid”</a> on vinyl. It turned out the roofer liked that soundtrack too, and this gave us confidence in him despite the shocking revelations about our chimney pots and cowls. After he left, I continued to loose at pool and we switched to Bruce Springsteen. I said, “Do we have that record with that circus song?” And the Englishman rustled around in our vinyl collection and put the record on our hi-fi which is not only a hi-fi system, but “a nice piece of furniture,” according to the late sixties brochure which came with it at the auction. </div>
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“That circus song.” Do you remember <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=5bb177f1a8&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">Bruce Springsteen’s circus song</a>? Though I’d been listening to Bruce via my parents since I was a toddler, I’d never heard his circus song until last year. It was then that a long-time fan made a disparaging remark about <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=11e4318f28&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">“The Oxygen Girl”</a> and the “novelty song” – meaning my circus song. I personally don’t have a problem with novelty songs and I know all of the words to Simon and Garfunkel’s <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=8dc1e64a41&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">“Punky’s Dilemma.”</a>What’s wrong with “Wish I was an English muffin, ‘bout to make the most out of a toaster. I’d ease myself down, coming up brown.” I never would have wondered so much about <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=0219a5eecc&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">boysenberries</a> without that song in my childhood and boysenberries seem a tame obsession for a thirteen year old girl given the other options . . . In fact, I may just make buttons that say, "Citizens for Boysenberry Jam" which perfectly defines the political chaos . . . . back to circuses.</div>
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But there I was, last year, confronted with a fan who regarded “The Oxygen Girl” as a frivolous and annoying novelty song. What did circuses have to do with Jewell Ridge anyway? So, I was feeling a bit raw when the Englishman said, “All the great songwriters have circus songs. Do you know this one?” And then he queued up Bruce Springsteen singing <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=46f51d040d&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">“Wild Billy’s Circus Story”</a> which begins, “The machinist climbs his ferris wheel like a brave.” Since that night, this has become my favorite Bruce Springsteen song. This is not only because this song was played for me in a gesture of romantic heroism, but also because there’s a tuba and an accordion in the arrangement – two of my favorite instruments. And it’s about the circus.</div>
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When I was a kid I loved the circus. Even though Mom and Dad were broke, they somehow got tickets through their offices or cereal box tops or radio contests, I don’t know. And there we were, eating cotton candy, watching women in sequined dresses spin from ropes of silk between their teeth. All of the animal stuff has changed at circuses now and that’s how the world spins, but that’s where we saw elephants and tigers and bears. The trapeze. The trapeze. The trapeze. Women with feathers in their hair, balancing on the backs of horses. The knife-thrower. The fire-eaters. </div>
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My great-great grandmother’s sister ran away with the circus. I’ve been trying to write a song about her for years. I woke up at 4:30 last night with some new version of that song about her in my head again. </div>
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Maybe it’s a thing with us performing songwriters – that yen for the big-top moment. Isn’t that what we want our audiences to feel – the way that I did at the circus when I was ten – transfixed, transformed, jubilant, and defiantly hopeful?</div>
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When I started performing professionally, I had been singing all of my life, but suddenly I worried that I was meant to have some kind of distinctive voice – some kind of tone. This resulted in some odd unreleased recordings of me sounding like <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=69af968626&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">Ralph Stanley</a>. But little by little, I let go of this worry and just sang – sang like I was sitting next to Mawmaw at the Friendly Chapel Church or next to my Dad when he got out his harmonica and guitar at Christmas. But even after making eight records, I couldn’t say what my personal distinctive Jeni “sound” was. You all have kindly described my voice to me in terrific comments and questions after concerts, but I couldn’t quite hear “the Jeni voice” in my own head.</div>
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That changed the other night when I sang “Wild Billy’s Circus Story.” The Englishman, being a longtime Bruce Springsteen fanatic knew the melody far better than I did, so he began teaching it to me. After singing along with him, and the both of us singing along with Bruce, I said, “Let me see if I can do this first verse on my own.” So, I started singing and maybe because Bruce’s voice is so different than mine, maybe because it’s normally a rock song, maybe because I’ve been doing more sewing than singing over the last few weeks, my voice announced itself distinctively as my own – a little folk, a little mountain country, certain words that slide here and there, notes between notes, and a wrapping of words around lines.</div>
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The Englishman laughed with astonishment to hear one of his longtime favorite songs sung in an entirely un-Springsteen voice. He loved it. I surprised myself. We sang it again and again until our stomachs reminded us that some supper would be nice.</div>
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Dad always heard my voice. He made a study of it which wasn’t difficult for him since my voice is part his voice. The last time he saw me perform – at <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=52273b5f38&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">Merlefest</a>in North Carolina – which was the first place I felt being a singer-songwriter was the life for me, he mouthed all of the words to the songs AND the stories in exactly my rhythm. He knew what I was going to say before I did. </div>
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I think a lot of you heard my voice before I did and so many of you have encouraged and galvanized me over the last ten years of my professional touring career. You’ve done this through coming to shows, buying CDs, hosting shows, sending me cards, letters, emails, Facebook messages, calling on the telephone, and being a group of a few thousand people who together make an audience, a fan club, a family, and a congregation of sorts.</div>
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I used to talk with my Dad nearly every day. When I called him, our conversation would go like this:</div>
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Hello?</div>
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Hi Dad.</div>
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Hi Kid.</div>
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How are you?</div>
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I’m so good I can hardly stand myself.</div>
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That was Dad.</div>
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Other times he would pretend that he was a guy named Cueball who ran a pool hall and then he would pretend that he would have to go look for my father.</div>
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My point is that it’s been a really crazy year in the world. Things seem very hard and confusing and downright mean sometimes. I rarely comment on any of this in these newsletters or on social media because what can I say but that the world seems to be falling apart a lot of the time. On the other hand, I have felt tremendously loved this year. I’ve made some extremely talented and some truly good friends. I’ve traveled and returned home safely. I can still hear the voice of my grandmother in Jewell Ridge on the other end of the phone. My sister is making theater. My Mom sent me a photo of our family cat talking on FaceTime with me.</div>
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Sometimes, I just feel like making politicians learn the banjo to distract them from messing up the world, and other times, at the end of the day, I feel so good I can hardly stand myself.</div>
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I hope that you will give yourself a chance to hear your own voice, to sing a new song, to laugh in the face of chaos, to show kindness, to dare to write a circus song, and to pretend you are in Cueball’s pool hall with Dad, eating peanuts and drinking Rolling Rock Beer. I’m going to head over there now, order a tonic water and some salt & vinegar crisps, and put “Wild Billy’s Circus Story” on the jukebox. I hope in 2019 you will feel transfixed, transformed, jubilant, and defiantly hopeful – like I felt at the circus when I was ten.</div>
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Thank you for ten years of touring!</div>
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Here’s to the next ten! </div>
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See you in 2019!</div>
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Happy Christmas and a Bright New Year!</div>
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Jeni</div>
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Next year, 2019, will mark my second decade as a touring artist! If you’d like to see me in concert next year, please <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com?subject=From%20the%20circus%20newsletter" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">write to me</a> with your house concert or local venue or festival ideas!</div>
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First Concert of 2019</h3>
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I'll be in the states for the first part of 2019 and I'm tickled that the folks from the <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=7448793bad&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">Huntsville Assistance Program (HAP)</a> in Huntsville, Alabama, have asked me along to play a benefit concert. Saturday, January 26, at 3pm in the afternoon at United Church of Huntsville. Tickets are $20 at the venue on the day of the show.<br />HAP is supported by 60 churches and provides vital assistance to family through food banks and utilities.</div>
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Second Show of the Year</h3>
I'll play my second show of the year at the <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=fe25a8a1ab&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #00add8;" target="_blank">Hope and Anchor Pub</a> on Upper Street, Islington, London. This promises to be a terrific evening of variety for the performers and audiences alike with poets Kevin Reinhardt and Cathy Flower, strummy folkie Adrian R Shaw, electro pop band Parenthesis Dot Dot, and yours truly. It's all put together by master of ceremonies, comedian and songwriter, Hank Osasuna! I'll be playing somewhere in the middle of the evening.<br />Tuesday, February 26, Doors at 7:30 pm.</td></tr>
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Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-83308412653147930422019-03-08T10:44:00.001+00:002019-03-08T10:44:52.308+00:00A Good Quiet Set of Directions: March 2019<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: 18px; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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A good quiet set of directions</h1>
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1000 Words on the Pleasure and Pain of Instructions</div>
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<strong>“I was up there in my room, reading some directions. That’s something I find I like to do when I have a few minutes to myself – I don’t know about you. How to put on furniture polish, transfer patterns with a hot iron, take off corns, I don’t care what it is. I don’t have to <em>do</em> it. Sometimes I’d rather sit still a minute and read a good quiet set of directions through than any story you’d try to wish off on me.”</strong></div>
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<strong>– Edna Earle from Eudora Welty’s <em>The</em> <em>Ponder Heart</em></strong></div>
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<br />Yesterday, I needed a nap. I’d been down to the charity shops in Sydenham, near where I live in London, and I came across a good book on Paper Mache. So, I snuggled under the duvet (what we call a comforter back in Virginia) and began to read directions. There were lists of supplies, there were cautions about inferior materials, there was encouragement about improvisation. Then, there were directions for specific projects, and I fell asleep in the middle of the instructions for a flower in a pot made out of a cottage cheese tub, a drinking straw, and some cardboard.</div>
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Sometimes, in the middle of the night, if I can’t sleep because I’m too hot or too cold, or I am thinking up too many ideas, I settle my mind on pretending that I’m making something. I go through every step of the project very slowly and then I drop off to sleep. If that doesn’t work, I try saying the alphabet or I just get up and write a song or bend to some <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=8577cac255&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Yoga with Adriene</a> (do you know Adriene? I’ve done so much yoga with her, sometimes I turn around to tell her something and remember that she is in Austin, Texas).</div>
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So, I was tickled when I recently read Eudora Welty’s excellent book, <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=5be0a6aedb&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Ponder Heart</em>,</a> and came across narrator Edna Earle who also loves reading “directions.” I am reluctantly coming to the realization that I might not live long enough to make all of the things I have it in my mind to make. But I am going to die trying. And I can supplement the making with reading about making.</div>
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This brings me to this year. Recently, I have been wading through a morass of red tape and bureaucracy to do with my life and work visa here in the UK. The directions are very poor. The fact that bureaucracy is so difficult to spell, nearly makes it onomatopoeic. Bureaucracy is where directions are stuffed, in no sensible order, into a sad brown chest of drawers where some of the drawers are locked, others are falling apart, others are boobytrapped, some smell bad, and where dealing with them conjures very crass words in the head of someone who worshipped Pollyanna as a child. “Bureau-crassy.”</div>
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The great thing about directions for sewing, for making gingerbread, for cutting linoleum, or for playing the mountain dulcimer, is that the authors of these directions have your best interests at heart and they would like you to think of them as worthy guides who will have you making dresses and portraits of your friends in no time. If their directions are poor, misleading, infuriating, or just plain wrong, you won’t be inclined to buy their patterns or books again. I can hear the voice of my mother ringing in my head, “I won’t be buying a <em>Vogue</em>pattern again because they just make skirts <em>more</em> difficult than they <em>should</em> be.” But rarely have tears been shed over a <em>Butterick</em> sewing pattern in the Hankins household.</div>
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Applying for my visa here in the UK has been much like working with a dress pattern that when put together looks like a horse wearing a potato. I am very patient with forms, applications, and questionnaires . My accountant (back when I had one) once asked me if I was really a performer because she’d never seen such organization from her other clients. When my sister needs someone to organize her stationery and toiletries, she knows I’m her girl. But this visa stuff has been much more complicated than separating Q-tips from cotton balls or rationalizing a Quickbooks report. </div>
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Because I am working through this visa process, my ability to work in the UK is on hold, and my ability to work in the USA is limited because I need to physically be in the UK to meet the UK residency requirements. This all means that when you look at my touring schedule for 2019, for the first time in eleven years, the page is blank. I can’t in good conscience commit to a slate of concerts for 2019 when my whereabouts and work permits are entirely up to the Home Office, and I may have to cancel or rearrange plans at short notice.</div>
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If my future was in the capable hands of the cast of <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=a883231ad7&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Spooks</em></a> (fantastic British spy series not to be missed by my American friends), I would have my work permit in hand, my residency sorted, and I would merely be a subplot as they foiled a dastardly plan by some criminal to achieve world domination. But, my future is in the hands of an office where, in my last meeting, I came up with the work around for a defective QR code and called technical support while they poked around on their keyboards like chickens. Lawsee-Beesee, as Mawmaw Margie would have said whilst adjusting her pink hair-net. </div>
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Why do I mention all of this? Dear reader, I would very much like to play a concert for you and, contrary to conjecture, I have not decided to become anyone else other than who I am – your sewing, singing, songwriting Jewell Ridge Girl. But I do need to have patience with the bureaucracy and I simply have to wait. I wish we could be together in some cozy house concert or eating chips at a bluegrass festival.</div>
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So, in the meantime, I am writing, singing, strumming, and making things. I am dreaming up a show for my 2020 tour. Depending on this and that, I may make a few appearances on stage here and there in 2019. It is very odd for me not to be traveling around singing for you for the first time in a decade. But, I shall keep in touch and I would be glad if you will, too. Speaking of which, <strong>thank you</strong>for all of the kind messages about my being especially ill ten days ago. All better here.</div>
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Here’s to a “good quiet set of directions” which is harder to find than one might think – all you have to do is look at world politics and little ole household ones, too, and see what a muddle we humans have made of it all. Luckily, the sun is still coming up and so is the moon, so we could do our part, too. I’m going to go work on a song and then try some more linocutting.</div>
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I wish you well in all of your directions – from the IKEA chair you’re assembling to the yoga tree pose that has you jumping like a pogo stick.<br /><br />Good for you! Keep going! I’m right with you!</div>
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Jeni</div>
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<strong>I've been working on a Jeni rag doll made from tea-stained muslin. </strong></div>
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Celia Pym and Visible Mending</h3>
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I really love <a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=90d02ed221&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">this interview</a> with world famous mender, Celia Pym. She talks a lot about repair. Repair is happening all of the time, isn't it? Repair makes me think of my favorite British emergency road sign which says:</div>
<br />FREE RECOVERY. AWAIT RESCUE<br /> <div style="text-align: left;">
Wouldn't that be great!?<br /><br /><a href="https://jenihankins.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01b5f753c19bf3443123c8b78&id=b4c4721995&e=a7a8fe419c" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Here is the article</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua", palatino; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Just a quick note to say that I will be playing the<span style="color: #ff99cc;"> <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1932796&k=a980afaa10a1063e00ddef9added9c62" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">Barnsley Folk and Acoustic Night</span></a></span> in one week on Wednesday, 12 September. I've been playing for the folks in Barnsley for nine years now and can hardly believe so much time has passed since I wrote to them very tentatively back in 2009 to ask if they would book Jeni & Billy at the Folk Club. They always have great singers and a listening atmosphere, so come along and sing along.</span></h1>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "book antiqua", palatino; font-size: 14px;">At the end of September, I will be flying over to California to play three shows. I will be back at <span style="color: #ff99cc;"><a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1932797&k=b27992ad48e704ecf805aac1469ead00" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">Fiddlers Crossing</span></a></span> in Tehachapi on Saturday, 29 September, and at <span style="color: #ff99cc;"><a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1932798&k=8bb55e265d8b53494048f38082b501ef" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">The Pasadena Folk Music Society</span></a></span> on Saturday, 6 October. There's also talk of a house concert in Huntington Beach on Friday, 5 October. So, please stay tuned by checking the website and I will send another newsletter out to confirm that Friday date just before I leave for California. I apologize to folks on the Central Coast and in the Bay Area and beyond for not making it up to your area this time around. Perhaps you fancy an excursion to the south and I will see you in Pasadena or Tehachapi!</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "book antiqua", palatino; font-size: 14px;">I have two new videos for you to enjoy. The first is a <span style="color: #ff99cc;"><a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1932799&k=3973663d8ee1b2858bc599cb4649e24f" target="_blank" title="Rise and Shine"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">new song</span></a></span> that I wrote for my Dad, Greg Hankins, over the two year anniversary of his death from leukemia. The song is about strenght and resilience in the face of grief and includes references to several of the songs that he and I loved.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "book antiqua", palatino; font-size: 14px;">The <span style="color: #ff99cc;"><a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1932801&k=e8be88a8ed9eb03766b343dc7d7c47c4" target="_blank" title="Sign Language"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">second video</span></a></span> comes from my performance at the Gardeners Rest in Sheffield during the Tramlines festival in July. My friend Alison Wild drove up from London on the day in order to sign in British sign language for two songs. Here is our version of Miner's Reward. I think she does a beautiful interpretation of the song.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "book antiqua", palatino;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">There is talk of house concerts in Preston and Huddersfield in October or November when I get back from California and a show of my photographs from great-great-granddad's cabin in Sheffield sometime in the fall or early next year. So, stay tuned for further adventures!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "book antiqua", palatino;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">You can always find me on <span style="color: #ff99cc;"><a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1932803&k=b28295173baba85cdcd4085bafd112ea" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">Facebook</span></a></span>, <span style="color: #ff99cc;"><a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1932804&k=0da3af541d981bbba3187937e992d25a" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">Instagram</span></a></span>, or<span style="color: #ff99cc;"> <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1932805&k=8cfeffc8d4c0c37396978eae1c8e8685" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">Twitter</span></a></span>, or you are welcome to write to me at <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "book antiqua", palatino;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I send you kindness and happiness,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "book antiqua", palatino;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Jeni</span></span></div>
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Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-32730001006850544742018-09-05T10:28:00.001+01:002018-09-05T10:28:54.328+01:00Two new videos!Hello friends!<br />
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The first is <a href="https://youtu.be/UNDydUxZ9ps" target="_blank">a new song</a> that I wrote for my Dad, Greg Hankins, on the two year anniversary of his passing. It's a song about resilience in the face of grief and it includes references to several of our favorite songs.<br />
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The second video comes from a live performance at the Gardeners Rest in Sheffield over the Tramlines Festival in late July. My friend Alison Wild drove up from London on the day in order to sign in British sign language for two songs. <a href="https://youtu.be/cRZTfcS7feE" target="_blank">This is her beautiful interpretation</a> of Miner's Reward.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">My summer tour in Britain starts on Saturday with a concert in Crystal Palace (London) and ends with a concert in Carnforth at the end of July. All of the dates are listed on the flyer above and <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1830350&k=53a00a960428ab7fb80b65c275335ab2" target="_blank" title="Jeni website">you can find all of the details on my website</a>. This year, I am playing far fewer dates than usual because I have lots of other projects going and I am trying to strike a balance between performing, which I love so much, and the new work I am creating. So, if I'm not coming to your area this time around, how about a mini-break to Liverpool or the Yorkshre Moors? OR we could plan something for late fall or next year?</span><br />
You can always write to me and we can dream up a concert together! <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;">When I was visiting Mawmaw on Smith Ridge, I went to see our old family cabin – a pilgrimmage that I have made for many years now. You can see the cabin it in its heyday in the photo at the top of this letter. The man in the photo, John Rufus Smith, built it. He was my great great grandfather, killed in cold blood in the line of duty as Justice of the Peace at the age of 60. He's the fella I sing about in the song "Aunt Erma" on <em>Heart of the Mountain, </em>which you can order directly from me by email, if you'd like.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;">I have been looking after the cabin in my own quiet way over the last five or six years and was shocked to find that, since last November, vandals had cut five large timbers out of a wall of the cabin. After getting my wits about me, talking to the sheriff's office, and the fella who checks the gas well near the cabin, I went and spoke to the gas company about my concerns. And you know what? They were kind, helpful, efficient, and started an inquiry into the vandalism since their well is near the cabin. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;">I'm not saying that I support hydro-fracking, so hang on there in case you are getting any ideas. Anyhow, the Englishman and I spent a big long and beautiful day working on the cabin and shoring up the damage as best we could. Mawmaw's trusty dog, Rusty, was a big help.</span><br />
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<img alt="Rusty Dog" height="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU321yHxcCGDQLMUpWVFbii4FuyVKVrvjXJCBFQVYgk7HcCymUJe293cIiEWWXu876AC_HX-ZO1UiZ7Dn3thXXR22hiWzuZN4Om6CMtwNLE7k3awOtdZFMTpVJzWVzXlk4a4mDR7CA-JAc/s320/P1000261.JPG" style="vertical-align: middle;" title="Rusty Dog" width="550" />Joe, from the gas company, said something to me when we were talking about the cabin. He said, "We build roads into places here that have been forgotten about for a long time, maybe fifty, sixty, even a hundred years. Things that were hidden are exposed and then they become vulnerable. It's our job to protect them as best we can." I think there's a song in there.<br />
I also went to our family reunion which was rained out and a bit of a comedy, but I met some relatives I'd never met before including Aunt Ada who was completely glamorous and told me a story about having only two outfits during her last year of high school – two skirts and two short-sleeved sweaters. So, she and my Aunt Princess and Aunt Katherine and their friend Ellen from down the ridge all traded clothes around to look like they each had more outfits than they did. I've been working on a song about that!<br />
Here I am with glamorous Aunt Ada!<br />
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For a long time I've heard about the legendary sewing skills of my Aunt Fanny who also kept a general store, but I actually got to meet her daughter Geneva, who told me about regularly pointing to a skirt in a catalog before school and asking her mother to hurry up and make it before the school bus arrived. She would put the skirt on right there at the sewing machine and run out the door to catch the bus.<br />
These are the kinds of things I love to hear about and I hope I will be equal to writing songs about them.<br />
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Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-56158722981933416692018-06-05T08:09:00.002+01:002018-06-05T08:09:13.920+01:00Images from my tour in the USA, May 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
Rusty Dog at the family cabin</div>
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Glamorous Aunt Ada.</div>
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<br />Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-22446816805342001802018-06-05T07:57:00.000+01:002018-06-05T07:57:11.692+01:00Summer Tour in Britain 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-9488236116301008122018-05-05T02:47:00.000+01:002018-05-05T02:47:03.199+01:00BACK IN THE USA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-77207477652854845572018-04-17T17:22:00.000+01:002018-04-17T17:22:08.330+01:00Back Home Tour, May 2018, VA, NC, & DC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nearly half the year has run ahead of me before this first newsletter of 2018. But the touring season is coming along in a matter of three weeks, so here’s the scoop on the concerts ahead. If you want to read a bit more about what I’ve been doing this spring, then mosey on down to the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Back Home Tour, USA, May 2018.</strong> In May, I’ll be flying over to Washington DC for a five-stop mini-tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and DC. Everything begins on Cinco de Mayo (5 May) at Alex Roth & Peter Overby’s house in Falls Church, VA. Doors will open at 2pm, concert starts around 2:30, and tickets are $20. If you’d like to come along, you’d be welcome. Just write to Alex and Peter for their address at <a href="mailto:overroth2@gmail.com">overroth2@gmail.com</a>. This concert was SO much fun last year and their house is the PERFECT setting for my music. The following evening, on May 6th, my terrific Davidson College pals, Mary Clare Jalonick and Katie McKelvie, are hosting a concert upstairs at the Tenley Bar in the heart of Washinton DC. Tickets are $10, Doors open at 7, Concert starts at 7:30pm. <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718755&k=61c4e63654cdf79c35e4105cbda00669" target="_blank" title="Eventbrite Link to Tenley Bar">Here’s a link to the show.</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">From DC, I will be zooming on down to Abingdon, Virginia, in the Southwest part of Virginia to join the super cool kids from the <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718756&k=289bf938689d883d6b37015039e741b6" target="_blank" title="4H">Junior Appalachian Musicians at the 4-H Center’s Ratliff Hall</a> to celebrate their hard work this year learning traditional mountain music! After their recital, I will give a concert and then strum the ole guitar for the the cake walk! This is going to be a blast. Tuesday, May 8, Doors 6pm. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">After a little visit to my house in the Guitar-town, I will head over to Charlotte, North Carolina, to play a house concert at the home of my friend and fellow songwriter DeWitt Crosby and her husband. Tickets are $15 and you can email DeWitt for more information! <a href="mailto:dewitt.crosby@gmail.com">dewitt.crosby@gmail.com</a> ALL are Welcome. Thursday, May 17, doors open at 7pm. Music will start at 7:45. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Then, I’ll finish up the singing part of the tour on Saturday, May 19, at the <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718757&k=aa064b64d99f31fc10513efed9f7960f" target="_blank" title="Arts link">Appalachian Arts Center</a> in Cedar Bluff playing for my hometown crowd! This place is gorgeous and full of treasures made by local artisans. At the time of the concert, the exhibit of <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718758&k=cccb2b5c3406438923e0fc330b5e6a2d" target="_blank" title="Goodwin Weavers">Goodwin Family Textiles </a>will still be on display! Tickets are $10. Doors open at 6:30, Concert starts at 7pm.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">After that, I’ll be visiting with Mawmaw and getting ready for the umpteenth Smith-Joyce Reunion where I plan to set up a table and collect stories from my relatives. I’ll visit the family cabin and take walks with Rusty-the-dog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">And, don’t fret, my sturdy Englishman will be traveling with me to the USA, so those of you who met him last year, will get to say hello again!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">This year, I have been writing songs, as always! You can hear one of my new songs and play along with me in this <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718759&k=9333ed43e91f10c0f2f6aefed6572cf7" target="_blank" title="Youtube video">YouTube video</a> on my new <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718760&k=df143405a427bfe375b31b8a1e8bf17a" target="_blank" title="YouTube Channel">YouTube Channel</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've also been taking dance and performance classes focusing on confidence, flexibility, strength, and agility. I’ve made a great bunch of girlfriends in London and I’m on my way to dance with them as I write to you!</span></div>
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<img alt="Jeni Blowing a Kiss" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDFPnUb8sMwOR9DIobycg012kERLgeNmJhKOIWYd71oOOpwVfIFWvER7w6wxqBNd10C3EyaP-IzLZIAof-n1Jw7N2cI4FIAUzxLxiM93MARirC5xs1yRkBznV0HvE4ybtZbYmZAro-cd_/s400/0d44437a-5b91-489c-b02d-4fae096f4dc5.jpg" style="vertical-align: middle;" width="550" /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">This summer, I will be touring in the UK. I’ve already added most of the dates to my website, so I hope you will make plans to come along and sing with me!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">In the fall, I will be heading back to the USA for two dates in the Los Angeles area – <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718761&k=a4a1516a3ccc27e186b8c1fc6baed610" target="_blank" title="Venue Link ">Fiddler’s Crossing</a> in Tehachapi on Sept. 29th, and <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718762&k=32b6f53581f824e32a8b50d5ac076d76" target="_blank" title="Pasadena Folk Music Society">Pasadena Folk Music Society</a> on October 6th. These concerts are both on Saturdays. I am afraid these are the only shows I will be playing out west this year because of my residency requirements in the UK, and I don’t know when I will make it out west next . . . so, perhaps you might fancy an excursion and make your way down from Davis, San Francisco, or the Central Coast for a long weekend? If not, I hope that music will bring us together in the future!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you want to know more about any of the upcoming shows, visit my <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1718763&k=a85b786599870eef2739bd4b309a0dc5" target="_blank" title="Website Tour page">website</a> or write to me at <a href="mailto:jeniannhankins@gmail.com">jeniannhankins@gmail.com</a>. As always, if you'd like to host a concert or you'd like me to come to your school or library, write to me as well!</span> </div>
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If you'd like to sing and play my new song with me, head over to my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6q6NO316a7sqyjT3nLp0oA" target="_blank">YouTube Channel.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This year, I'll be touring in England & Wales, and across the USA, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, California, Florida, and Alabama (and likely stops in between). If you are especially keen to host a concert or tell me about a venue in your area, I'd be glad to hear from you at jeniannhankins@gmail.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My tour will be smaller than in previous years because I am working on several book projects, a live CD, and new songs. These book projects require several weeks/months of uninterrupted reading and writing, as well field research. What are they? At least one is the novel set in my home of Southwest Virginia, "Middle Creek," which I began in 2015. You can read the first chapter <a data-mce-href="https://littleyellowsewingbox.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/middle-creek-novel-by-jeni-hankins.html" href="https://littleyellowsewingbox.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/middle-creek-novel-by-jeni-hankins.html" target="_blank">here</a> and you can also hear me read it by clicking the Soundcloud link. The other two projects are too fledgling to describe, but one involves sewing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In order to see these writing/sewing projects through, I am planning about 25 concerts this year which is half of my normal schedule (a third compared to some years!), so please do be in touch if you want to be sure I don't miss your town.</span></div>
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Jenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665541819393383941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2517461800210711034.post-19862517937938085452017-11-02T16:31:00.000+00:002017-11-02T16:31:40.672+00:00Florida, Alabama, and Davidson College! November tour!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">That’s a new photo of me from a photo shoot at my great-grandfather, John Rufus Smith's, cabin. He built the cabin in the late 1800s and generations of Smiths lived there until the 1960s. Now, the cabin and the land around it is owned by the gas company who have sunk a gas well nearby. But the intrepid Smith can still get there with dresses in her backpack! Photo by Graham Frear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">It's been great to be in Nashville after more than a year away! At first, I felt a bit overwhelmed seeing all of my old things. I wrote an essay about that and <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1561311&k=d68af5da291a617b3bfbc67edd3410b4" target="_blank" title="link to essay">you can read it on my blog at Little Yellow Sewing Box</a>. But now, my journey ahead seems a bit clearer and I am brimming with ideas about the future! But, first, time for a tour!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">Tomorrow, I begin my journey by heading further south to Florida! First stop is Gainesville for a house concert on Saturday night, Nov. 4th, at the home of banjo aficionado Chuck Levy and his lovely wife, Sandy. If you’d like to come, just write to Chuck: <a href="mailto:levyce@aol.com">levyce@aol.com</a>.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">On, Sunday, Nov. 5th, I’ll make my way down to Lakeland for a 2pm concert at the Lakeland Public Library. I haven’t been there in several years and I remember when I played there last, a woman wrote a beautiful poem based on my singing! Who knows what will happen this time around.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">And before I head back to Nashville, I will be stopping in Huntsville, AL, for a benefit concert for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI supports thousands of families struggling with mental illness. They do vital work that saves lives and I am very honored to be playing for them. That concert will take place on Friday, Nov 17th, at United Church. Doors open at 6:30, concert at 7. Tickets are only $10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">I am thrilled to say that the last concert of my tour here in the USA will be held at my alma mater, Davidson College! Please join Professor Randy Ingram and the students of English 240 for an hour-long performance on Thursday, Nov 30, followed by a Q&A at the Carolina Inn. Doors open at 6:30, and the concert will begin at 7pm. I will also be available on campus throughout the day, so, if you’d like to have a cup of tea or lunch, let me know! I will be meeting with students at the career center from 1pm to 3pm on the 30th. So, if you know any current Davidson students who would like to talk with me about a career in the arts, I would love to meet them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">You can always find details of my concerts on my <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1561312&k=5973b13ca5a83ba6bcf151f8ce0c37e0" target="_blank">tour page</a>. And you can buys CDs at <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1561313&k=f9494dbf13961b0a5e0bfd0b5377a77d" target="_blank">bandcamp</a>, <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1561314&k=4b8d85ce0b4a9a32b160654a1f48c91b" target="_blank">cdbaby</a>, and <a href="http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=13069948&l=1561315&k=1102abdb3a8487ab0cdd1beabac05871" target="_blank">iTunes</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">Thank you to all of you who came out to the concerts in MD, PA, and VA! I had such a great time seeing old friends and making new ones. If I missed you, I’ll hope to see you in 2018!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua", palatino; font-size: medium;">Happiness, peace, and kindness to you all,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">Jeni</span></div>
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