Steven L. Hopp is a co-author, along with his wife Barbara Kingsolver, of the best-selling book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life. In September, 2007, he opened Harvest Table, a local foods restaurant. Read my interview of him that appeared on April 6, 2008 in the Bristol Herald Courier. If one word could […]
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JAM Session
Note: This article orginally ran on 11/29/2007 in the Bristol Herald Courier. Some say it’s about preserving the past, others about securing the future. Some say it’s about helping kids learn to work together. Others see it as a way to just kids but whole families together. Just mentioning the Virginia Junior Appalachian Musician (JAM) […]
A Dream That Was All Too Real
Note: I have a degree in music theory and from 1984-1986 I worked as a music reviewer, columnist and feature writer for the Bloomington Herald-Telephone in Bloomington, IN. Sometimes, while interviewing the composer-of-the-week about an upcoming concert, I got a little tired of the posturing that seemed to go hand in hand with contemporary composition. […]