RESEARCH TRIP PART ONE

Friday-Sunday
I left work Friday afternoon to spend the weekend with some friends on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Had a very relaxing time, reminiscing about high school days in Midlothian, Virginia, and learning whatever happened with so-and-so, etc.

And then there was the Cape Charles Ghost Tour, written and occasionally led by Eastern Shore writer-director, Scott Whitaker. I highly recommend this tour. It's a great way to enjoy an evening out on the shore. I got goose bumps. (Or were those mosquito bites?) Well researched, well written, well told...all-around a well-done project.

photo credit: www.capecharlestours.com

My host lent me his copy of Camille Paglia's Sex, Art, and American Culture, which I have yet to read. But look for my remarks in a future post.

As I left, I stopped by a used bookstore just north of Cambridge, MD (my friend Elisabeth's old stomping grounds) and scored a deal on Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons (UCP, 1992), as well as a collection of sermons by the great sacred-musicologist & Wesley scholar, Erik Routley.