This year's KG is EXTRA LARGE; at least in an existential sense (and the Roman Numeral sense).
We were hoping everyone had joined the FB generation by now but with all that scary NSA paranoia, I am not surprised by their reticence. So here is a place that you can get info online if you refuse to get a Facebook account.
The number 40 is used in Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other Middle Eastern traditions to represent a large, approximate number, similar to “umpteen". Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Umpteenth Pacific Rim Kindred Gathering, wherein you are welcome to commence to sing, play, dance, cavort, teach, learn and otherwise enjoy yourselves and others in a tradition of friendliness and even-tempered diatonics, chromatics and knee-slappin’ frivolity. Come and consume great food and home-brewed beer at the very least. And talent, did i say talent? All kinds of talent, you included!
August 15, 16, 17 -2014
Checkout is at 1:00 pm on Monday so you must be in your car driving out at that time to make room for the next guests
Be readyJUGHANDLE Creek Farm
15501 N Highway 1 Caspar, CA 95420
707-964-4630 (SITE contact)
707-237-1348 (Cindy KG info)
Fees
Farmhouse & cabins
$40.00 adults
$33.00 student
$15.00 child
Camping
$20.00 adult
$18.00 student
$10.00 Child
Okay here's the site's site: http://www.jughandlecreekfarm.com/
So it's about five miles south of Fort Bragg CA or just about the same distance from the town of Mendocino.
It's uber-quaint and green. We are really banking on an El Niño year to save us from this draught, but the coast is always cooler and wetter.
Cindy is in charge of reservations for the house and the surrounding cabins, camping and whatnot. Already many people have been posting to our Facebook page which is: Facebook KG40
It's uber-quaint and green. We are really banking on an El Niño year to save us from this draught, but the coast is always cooler and wetter.
Cindy is in charge of reservations for the house and the surrounding cabins, camping and whatnot. Already many people have been posting to our Facebook page which is: Facebook KG40
These 2 maps are not scaled and it behooves you to plan your route. The coast highway and this northern route are beautiful in the daytime but not well-lit at night.If you drive into the ocean, you’ve gone too far…again!
The site is Jughandle Creek Farmhouse on the EAST (land) side, NOT Jughandle State Reserve on the ocean side.
We start Friday night with dinner, jamming, visiting and settling in.
Check in time can be as early as 3:00 PM. on Friday and check out is at 1:00 PM. on Monday. Think ahead so there’s time to help clean-up.
If you slide in late at night we will leave notes in the kitchen entrance ‘round back of the farmhouse.
On Saturday morning at 10:00 we will have a viewing of Hearts of the Dulcimer.
There are nature hikes and trails and the quaint little coastal towns of Mendocino and Fort Bragg just a few miles South and North respectively.
The climate is Coastal Mediterranean. So think “layers” of clothing. Bring flashlights and whatever sleeping paraphernalia you think may keep you warm.
Of course we will be taking donations to keep this wonderful tradition afloat for years to come.
Bring an easy disposition and embrace the weirdness that is central to the creative and open spirit of KG.
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Regulars will know you are on your own food-wise for breakfast and lunch. You can use the kitchen in the farmhouse if you play nice with others!
Bring food to share on Friday evening a communal soup-n-salad bar.
There will be a Barbecue grill available on Saturday evening with potato bar and possibly a Pizza oven. So bring something to slap on the grill and a little something on the side.
The cooking and clean-up is always a community affair.
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Bring TAB, music, and your instruments of course and be ready to share your ideas on playing, singing, writing, and building.
We will have the usual Saturday night concert and another idea has been floated to have a “lunch on the back porch” concert to open up the floor, and like 2013, we will be extending the festivities to Sunday night.
But of course it’s KG so we can keep it loose and plan on-the-fly!
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Jughandle is a wonderful spot along the wonderful Mendocino Coast... I've lived along this coast several times.... It is what it is... a special spot on earth to enjoy nature and fellow people...such a spot... now about that morning and afternoon fog that the california coast loves...
ReplyDeleteBeing a Luddite, or at least an anti-social networker, I never wanted to actually have to join Facebook. I've emailed Cathy, Cal, Cindy and others pleading to make the KG-XL dates and location visible to non-FB folks. This blogspot page doesn't even have the dates up on it yet.
ReplyDeleteNobody (except Mark, who doesn't have the answers I'd need [site rules, prices, on-site contact info...] to make a printable 8½ x 11 PDF to attach to a KG invitation email) has responded to me to even acknowledge that I've been maintaining a reasonably up-to-date KG email list, and want to send out the invite soon.
I would, however, like any new -- if you didn't get the KG invite email last year -- email addresses sent to me at jnb {dot} reinvent {at} gmail {dot} com , as well as email for a few folks I've been asking about such as Gregg Schneeman and Michael Rugg).
Shouldn't all the FB info about KG-XL be PUBLICLY viewable? I believe it's a simple FB setting. Shouldn't at least the basic dates and location be up by now on kindredgathering.com ?
Dearest Jim,
DeleteI would remind you that your tone in condescending if I didn't have some respect for you. As it is I have received only one email from you and that is the one where you complain that you haven't gotten a reply. Since you've now "shotgunned" it, (a practice I find smarmy at the very least) you have engaged my ire. The Facebook page has always been visible to the public as it is now.
Since it was only this weekend that we have put together the flyer I have put much of that information on this site. If you don't want to post on the Facebook page,DON"T. I think everyone should appreciate that freedom.
Cal Gravatt
Oh, and by the way, as long as I'm ranting... The KG will NOT be 40 years old this year. KG-XL will mark 39 years since the birth of the KG's at KG-I It's simple math. XL - I = XXXIX. If you ever want the number of an annual event to equal the age of the series of events, make sure you number the first one with a zero! (...just as you did with your own birthdate.)
ReplyDeleteIt's KGXL and again you are not ranting you are being a condescending ass.
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