Farewell and blessings, my friend...

I just heard of the death of a dear friend. No matter how you age (chronologically) there is never a time you are prepared for the death of a friend. When that friend is part of a couple you've known and loved since early adulthood, therefore part of your youth, your beginnings in the world, it hurts in additional ways--ways you simply didn't expect, however much you knew you would grieve. And the cruel disease that took my friend was cancer, cancer directly related to the fact he smoked cigarettes. I think that my heart will break if I go on much further but suffice to say...I want all those filthy things thrown into some kind of eco-friendly disposal unit immediately. Worldwide.  11/19/2014

A Jim and Maggi Cloud

Join us this weekend for a special musical trip....through America, with Charles Dickens...music, and illustrated historical commentary, by Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton

Join us this weekend for a special musical trip....through America, with Charles Dickens...music, and illustrated historical commentary, 

by Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton

Song, Story, Music, Laughter, and Sights to See...

 

TICKETS: 

 https://prod.mkat.com/mktixrun/shared/mknporun?dir=mktix.MKT-971.DFB-E33162&Event=DFB-E33162&page=mk2eventregisterfrm.jsp
Tickets are also available at the door

For more information on the conference:  PICKWICKIAN ENDEAVORS (Dickens Fellowship North of Boston branch)


http://www.dickensnorthofboston.com/dickens_002.htm

Join us for "A Musical Journey With Dickens" Illustrated Concert-Lecture program

 We'll be doing a cool illustrated concert-lecture program at this next month..."A Musical Journey With Dickens."

Join Us! Registration is open now...our program, at the Hawthorne Hotel, is open to the public.

http://www.dickensnorthofboston.com/dickens_002.htm

Ah! No matter how many times...It is always such a kick to see your book in the window of a bookstore! Thank you, Salem's own very new, very welcome, very cool Bookstore..Wicked Good Books!

 PS the book is A history of spiritualism and the occult in Salem : the rise of witch city by yours truly!

Pix from recent performances

Pix from some recent gigs...Jim and Maggi at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, on May 4, performing for the Massachusetts Poetry Festival ("CelticSpringSongs"); our yearly concert, in April this year... at The Boston Conservatory ("A Celebration of American Music 5")...and Maggi on an author's panel at Mohegan Sun for The Big Book Club Festival!