We took an amazing trip down the Crooked Road, "Virginia's Music Heritage Trail," over Labor Day. This part of our state is widely regarded as the birthplace of old time music and bluegrass. Venues all along the route feature live music on the weekends. Much of it is free. All of it is affordable and well worth the effort of getting there. We all had a blast. The girls danced until they passed out and we all came back with some new favorite tunes.
Highlight of the trip -- a stop by the Carter Family Fold, where A.P. and Maybelle got their start, where June honed her skills, and where Johnny Cash played his last live show.
Famous Carter Family Fold performers -- Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash and the amazing Molly B!
Harper posing in front of the stage between sets.
Molly barely stopped dancing the whole weekend! She loved dancing with her daddy at every stop.
Posing with Grammy at the Martha Washington Inn Cabaret show. It was much more family-friendly than the title suggests. We really enjoyed the Dixie Bee-liners that evening. Check them out on iTunes!
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...and debuting her new bob in June 2011!
Our little helper -- out shoveling the sidewalk with Daddy.
Hooray! Harper finally gets a turn to help out!
Molly with our first snowman -- ever. Maybe if her mom had been born somewhere other than the deep South we could have built a bigger snowman. I had a hard time getting the snowball to stick together. Luckily, Molly didn't seem notice.
And Harper just wasn't sure what to make of the snowman period. All she new for certain was that she wanted to eat his raisin eyes, which she did repeatedly for the rest of the afternoon. (I had to replace them three times!)