Old Friends, New Times!

Great visiting with my dear friend, Sherry Boyd (above), today. Sherry recorded an interview for broadcast later tonight. Listen between 8 and 9, EDT, to WBRF Radio, in Galax, Virginia: http://www.blueridgecountryradio98.com/ The Galax Fiddlers Convention marks its 76 year next week and nothing makes me more homesick, so I took it upon myself to invite friends and relatives back home to the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, in September. (www.wvfest.com) The next best thing to going home would be having all the homefolks here! I wish we had room for everyone to stay with us!

Sherry and I have been co-workers and roommates and she wrote the foreword for Dixie Lee Jackson's Guide to Cookin' and Kissin'. Folks around the globe are sure glad she's back on the air. Sherry was honored at the Society for the Preservation of Blue Grass Music in America awards this past year with a lifetime achievement award. She emcees bluegrass music festivals around the nation and is beloved wherever she goes!

I'm so proud to include her among my talented and beautiful friends!

Whole Lotta Holts

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. . . my father and grandfather were actors who played in many Westerns of the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's. In your birthday greeting to Wyatt Earp and reference to Virgil, my dad played Virgil Earp in John Ford's My Darling Clementine.

Jack

I had the good fortune of meeting Jack Holt from the Department of Defense a few weeks ago-- good looking guy from Oklahoma who is working in the area of "new media." Well, if only I had known his distinguished lineage, I would have created a one-woman media frenzy. Tom and I are both huge fans of Tim Holt, who indeed played Virgil Earp in the legendary movie mentioned above, as well as Bogie's ill-fated partner in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (above, Humphrey Bogart, left, Tim Holt, right).

Jack's grandfather, Jack Holt (right), had a career that included silent movies and he also acted with his son in Sierra Madre. He also attended Virginia Military Institute. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Reckon how many guys who attended VMI have achieved such an honor? His daughter, Jennifer (left), also acted in dozens of Westerns.

Go figure that Jack would have all this thespian blood and opt for government service. . . well, if it's good enough for Ronald Reagan. . . .Now that I'm aware of Jack's ancestry, I will pester him for more details and hope to share them with you. One thing is already for certain, it's clear where the good looks come from.
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WBRF

Thank God Al Gore invented the internet! Here I am, sitting in America's Heartland, listening to WBRF in Galax, Virginia. The "Night Rider," Bruce Hodges, is on the air, and if you want a real taste, and sound, of life in the Blue Ridge Mountains, tune in and tell them Deb sent you. http://www.blueridgecountry98.com/ He's playing Ed Bruce's new song, "I know." If you haven't heard Ed Bruce sing, your life is simply not complete.