May Day 2012: Burgers and Bluegrass

Finally, after a cold and reclusive winter, May Day at the Great Blue Heron Music Festival arrived with perfect weather and lots of work to do. Arriving Saturday night, Nathan…

Making the Blue Heron Sculpture

Nathan and I have been volunteering at Blue Heron for a few years now, and this year, we wanted to have a major contribution to the festival. Him being a…

Great Rhythm Revival/Night Lights at Heron

Another perfectly awesome accident happened. I was already planning on spending last weekend up at the Heron to do some volunteering, and by a very fortunate circumstance, I ended up…

Great Blue Heron Music Festival 2010

It is 3 days of camping, music and love. It is a journey away from routine. It is the event my friends and I look forward to the most every…

GBH: The May Day That Was

I found myself back in Sherman, New York this weekend. It’s getting to be a more frequent weekend destination for me as I get more and more deeply involved in…

GBH: The May Day That Wasn’t

Every year, the organizers of the Great Blue Heron Music Festival in southwestern New York hold their annual May Day party. The purpose is to be sort of a meet’n’greet…

Blue Heron Ski and Stamp Weekend

Everyone knows that I frequently refer to one of the happiest places in the world as a little farm up in the New York Amish countryside between the cities of…