boblog -- by bob stepno

I let writing a "get well soon" email to a Blacksburg, Va., friend get out of hand, after hearing she had to cancel her monthly po...

I've just joined that new social networking federation of servers called Mastodon, mostly because of my old friends who are journalists ...

Compulsively wrote this on Facebook around 4 a.m. this morning, but thought I'd share it here too so that I can point non-Facebook frien...

 I've just discovered this University of Albany archive of music recordings thanks to a friend or stranger on Facebook...  I was lucky e...

  Oldtime music crossover... While looking for the words to a less-often-heard "shindig in the barn" verse to "Blue Ridge Mou...

Oh my! The second pandemic year of 2021 is almost over and I haven't added a new page here since December 2019! Here's a lot of catc...

Just discovered both " The Syncopated Times " and -- in passing -- Iver Edwards, ukulele and harmonica player from Galax, Va., i...