by Jane Belden
Saturday morning the Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center came to life with the gathering of 42 fiddlers and their entourage of musicians and family to compete in the First Annual Fiddling Competition. Jim French sponsored the event after he applied and received a Grant from the Humboldt Area Foundation last year. The event was beautifully covered in photos by Phil Nelson in last week's issue.
by Jane Belden
In an essay on John Donne, T.S. Eliot writes "With sincerity in a practical sense, poetry has little to do; the poet is responsible to a much more difficult consciousness and honesty. And it is because of this honesty, because he is so often expressing his genuine whole of tangled feelings, that Donne is, like the early Italians, like Heine, like Baudelaire, a poet of the world's literature."
