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F.O.A.D.

On 10/17/13, 2:57 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:47:03 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 10/17/13, 11:36 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:07:57 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

D'uh, I went to bluegrass and folk concerts in the 1960's, when both
were in their modern heyday and you were playing in the dirt. In those
days, you didn't see Confederate flags at bluegrass festivals, as you do
today, and the audiences were a panoply of colors, and not nearly all
white, as they are today.

Must have just been a connecticut thing.

Are you sure you are not confusing a bluegrass festival with a
hootenanny?

I went to three years of Newport Folk Festivals, where bluegrass was
featured, and I was "the guy" for the Associated Press in parts of West
Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, and attended dozens of bluegrass concerts
in that area. Never saw one Confederate flag at a concert. At that time,
the managing editor of the newspaper in Huntingtown, W.Va., was an
actual Hatfield.

Maybe that was because those are northern venues.

Actually the confederate flag issue is really only about 2 or3
decades old anyway ... sort of like the "redskins" outrage,

You're really not a liberal arts student...West Virginia, where I lived
for a while, had some significant anti-slavery activities, and Kentucky,
of course, was a slave state.

I recall a couple of traitorous Confederate flag episodes in SW Missouri
when I was in college, either in Joplin or Springfield, and a decade or
so later there were incidents involving that flag of disgrace in
Virginia. That's what, five decades or more ago?