"To every thing, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to
die...
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a
time to mourn, and a time to dance."
-- Bible: Ecclesiastes
RE: McGOOFEST '09
To The Mining Journal:
On July 24th & 25th, a sure to be sun-drenched weekend, there will be a benefit held at the Lumberjack Tavern in the enchanting village of Big Bay. The purpose of this event is to aid and assist our fellow citizen of Marquette, Tim Mcgee. Tim has been dealing with throat cancer and the inevitable financial costs that, for most of us, attend all such serious afflictions.
My purpose here is to draw attention to the fact that -- on an Art-on the-Rocks and 1969 MHS Reunion weekend -- this should be the must attend concert of the summer on your Marquette County itinerary. The venerable Mr. Beamer and his Clear Creek Retinue will be providing a tented outdoor setting, impervious to the elements and all biting flies, as a venue for this glorious soiree. There will be extra help on hand to serve up the gustatory delights the Jack's head chef, Charity Blaze, has planned for us. Highlights on the menu will include a cucumber ginger lemonade, tempeh pasty appetizer, Partridge Wellington, and wild watercress-chaunterelle bone-in filet. Bananas Foster and Baked Alaska will comprise the dessert.
But enough on the food. About the music. Some of the finest musicians to ever come out of south Marquette will be performing, including but not limited to Derrell Syria, Michael Stadler, and Butchie Butler. Illusionist, Bill Malette, and masseur, Kim French, from the sorely missed, "Ore Dock Ogres," will be holding forth with great passion on fife and dulcimer. Lorrie Hayes, Walt Lindala, Mike Letts, and her mates in the Flat Blues Band, are expected to grace the stage with their toe blistering potato boogie groove assault. Fast Eddie, AKA the "Carp River Cobra," will be facilitating a "Fattening Frogs for Snakes" workshop, should any aspiring harmonica players be in need of a lesson. Chemojunkie, AKA "The Neutropenics," led by Der Kommisar, Herr Don Kuhli, will be arriving from the west coast to ensure that a faux-surf-and-polka atmosphere hovers over the confluence of Lake Superior and the Grand Mud Puddle (Lake Independence). Having the music commence from 7PM until 2AM allows for a hearty musical bounty and maximum jamming. Guided smelting tours starting from the Iron River's headwaters, the Iron River Dam, and ending at the mouth, Gitchee Gumee, will be running throughout the evening. The Troll contingent, infiltrators from the People's Republic of Ann Arbor, will be storming the bridge and headed north by northwest. This "Troll Insurgency" (not to be confused with the "Peanut Butter Conspiracy"), AKA FUBAR, will be bringing their wig-singeing rock-and-soul brew to a head on the spot where Mike Chenowith was gunned down (ouch!). "The Superbs," formerly "Zanibar (featuring Calvin and Cathy)," formerly "Bonds Unchained," formerly "Orchard Rest Home," will be reuniting via a channeling device that will return Rob Labby, Les Ross, and Stan Syria for a onetime only terrestrial appearance.
And so my fellow Yoopers, from Marquette and abroad, I urge you to join us in support of Tim McGee.
To The Mining Journal:
On July 24th & 25th, a sure to be sun-drenched weekend, there will be a benefit held at the Lumberjack Tavern in the enchanting village of Big Bay. The purpose of this event is to aid and assist our fellow citizen of Marquette, Tim Mcgee. Tim has been dealing with throat cancer and the inevitable financial costs that, for most of us, attend all such serious afflictions.
My purpose here is to draw attention to the fact that -- on an Art-on the-Rocks and 1969 MHS Reunion weekend -- this should be the must attend concert of the summer on your Marquette County itinerary. The venerable Mr. Beamer and his Clear Creek Retinue will be providing a tented outdoor setting, impervious to the elements and all biting flies, as a venue for this glorious soiree. There will be extra help on hand to serve up the gustatory delights the Jack's head chef, Charity Blaze, has planned for us. Highlights on the menu will include a cucumber ginger lemonade, tempeh pasty appetizer, Partridge Wellington, and wild watercress-chaunterelle bone-in filet. Bananas Foster and Baked Alaska will comprise the dessert.
But enough on the food. About the music. Some of the finest musicians to ever come out of south Marquette will be performing, including but not limited to Derrell Syria, Michael Stadler, and Butchie Butler. Illusionist, Bill Malette, and masseur, Kim French, from the sorely missed, "Ore Dock Ogres," will be holding forth with great passion on fife and dulcimer. Lorrie Hayes, Walt Lindala, Mike Letts, and her mates in the Flat Blues Band, are expected to grace the stage with their toe blistering potato boogie groove assault. Fast Eddie, AKA the "Carp River Cobra," will be facilitating a "Fattening Frogs for Snakes" workshop, should any aspiring harmonica players be in need of a lesson. Chemojunkie, AKA "The Neutropenics," led by Der Kommisar, Herr Don Kuhli, will be arriving from the west coast to ensure that a faux-surf-and-polka atmosphere hovers over the confluence of Lake Superior and the Grand Mud Puddle (Lake Independence). Having the music commence from 7PM until 2AM allows for a hearty musical bounty and maximum jamming. Guided smelting tours starting from the Iron River's headwaters, the Iron River Dam, and ending at the mouth, Gitchee Gumee, will be running throughout the evening. The Troll contingent, infiltrators from the People's Republic of Ann Arbor, will be storming the bridge and headed north by northwest. This "Troll Insurgency" (not to be confused with the "Peanut Butter Conspiracy"), AKA FUBAR, will be bringing their wig-singeing rock-and-soul brew to a head on the spot where Mike Chenowith was gunned down (ouch!). "The Superbs," formerly "Zanibar (featuring Calvin and Cathy)," formerly "Bonds Unchained," formerly "Orchard Rest Home," will be reuniting via a channeling device that will return Rob Labby, Les Ross, and Stan Syria for a onetime only terrestrial appearance.
And so my fellow Yoopers, from Marquette and abroad, I urge you to join us in support of Tim McGee.
With Warm Regards - Randall L. Tessier
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cell 734-276-4474
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cell 734-276-4474
2 comments:
Draft reads good. You might email a copy to Al Schneiders' brother Dave at the Mining Urinal. Last I checked, he was the City Editor. Might be Managing Editor by now. Late,Bill.
FYI: As well as Art on the Rocks and the MSHS's 40th class reunion, there is also a 40th class reunion of Bishop Baraga Central High School, which is the class where Tim graduated from. We were the last graduating class from that school.
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