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Buy-Way Weekend

Happy New Year!

January 4, 2012 by Cece

Don’t we wish that all aspects of life had a place like this?

Hi Everyone!

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I am back after a few months of leave, and I am glad to be writing again. Thanks for all of your patience. Unfortunately, life doesn’t resolve issues as quickly as we would like them to be resolved. As you saw in my last post, I came home after the Buy-Way weekend to find my house robbed.  These thefts in our lives did not stop after that initial incident; we had two other incidences occurring within two months after the August robbery.  These three events left my husband and I pretty battered and world-weary to say the least.

The concept of trust as a whole for me was shaken to its core. The quote, “You take the good with bad,” really was true this time.  It was very hard to reconcile the good of the last Lincoln Highway trip when I came home to something so devastating.  I’ll admit, I was pretty fearful of doing anything with this travelogue.  My basic primal fear was that if I left again to do research again, something bad would happen again.  Period.  I know it seems silly, but that’s how I felt for a while after the thefts.

I knew that I had to let go of all of this in a healthy way, so I went up north on retreat before the holidays, sat with all of emotions of these events along with other events from the last 12 months (including the unexpected death of my father before my wedding), and got my emotions back in check.  Grief and loss (including loss of security) is part of everyone’s life, and I know it will never go away fully.  The key is to not let the emotions control you of course, but it’s easier said then done.

The last few months have been all behind the scenes work for the journey in 2013. I have been finalizing and rehearsing the concert program you will all hear in 2013. I have been sitting in dusty stacks of sheet music for hours, and pouring over old programs to see what singers performed from 1913-1930.  Some of the sheet music is still on order and will be arriving in the coming months. I want to have a good variety of music genres in the program, but still have a cohesive recital that people will want to see. I also have been working on the travel itinerary as well, and I plan to spend roughly 2 weeks in each state when I travel, so I’ll be on the road for about 6 months in total (April-October).

I’ve also started looking at vintage catalogs and books to get a good idea fashion wise how I want to present myself on the road.  It will be more of a conservative 1920’s look to keep with the music I’ll be presenting. It’s amazing what little details come into play with something like this.

If you or someone else you know would like to help contribute with this project in one way of another, please send them my way or share this blog with them.  While I am the one embarking on this journey, this travelogue is about the communities along the Lincoln Highway as well.  You all are stars in this project as much as I am.

I will be posting regularly about my progress, which will include photos and video.  If there is something you want me to post about, please let me know.  What I think might be boring may be totally interesting to you.  If it’s interesting to you, it’s probably interesting to more people out there.

Wherever you all are, I wish you all the best in this new year and I look forward to seeing you on the road in 2012.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 2012, 2013, Buy-Way Weekend, Grief, Life, Lincoln Highway, Loss

Post Buy-Way weekend update

August 16, 2011 by Cece

Hello everyone.  You may have wondered my my blog has been silent after the Buy-Way weekend, and this is why.

When my husband and I arrived home from our trip, we found our house was broken into, and the place was ransacked.  There are still a lot of things that are happening right now, and what he says in his own blog post is pretty much dead on (click here to read the post).

Emotionally, things are still pretty raw with me right now.  Something like this has never happened to me before, and compounded with other losses sustained in the last 12

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months, it feels overwhelming at times. People have been very supportive, and I appreciate all of your kind thoughts and prayers.  They are still needed and wanted.

I will be writing about the Buy Way weekend, posting pictures and video soon in the coming weeks after doors are painted, closets put back together, and equipment is bought. Please stay tuned for a future blog on the whole weekend.

Take care and stay safe everyone!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 2011, Buy-Way Weekend, house, robbed

Absence makes the road call faster

July 28, 2011 by Cece

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”- Abraham Lincoln

So I’ve been fairly quiet in the blog world this month. Not because I’ve got nothing to say (my beloved, friends, and family can attest to that), but because I’ve been working on so many other facets of the 2013 concert that are hard to write about.

I’ve been pouring over hundreds of pieces of sheet music from the 1910’s, 20’s and 30’s (some of them the original publications) thinking about what pieces of music I like and would work well for buy cheap viagra online the travelogue, as well as thinking about what format to sing everything in.

I’ve figured out the format now, and am still whittling down the songs for the concert in my own music practice (finding and sight reading all of these pieces takes a long time). I still need help in finding old concert programs from places along the highway. Hopefully I can find some programs soon.

The need to be on the road exploring the highway has been growing stronger since the conference. I was trying to figure out a way to see more of the highway this year, and I found it!

At this time next week, I’ll be driving on the Lincoln Highway for the annual “Buy-Way” weekend.  I plan to drive through all five participating states to check out the areas and talk to anyone and everyone I can about the travelogue for 2013.

Here’s my rough itinerary:

I will leave Chicago in the middle of next week and drive east to Pittsburgh via the later alignments of the LH route.  I will drive West the rest of the week on the original alignments on the days noted below.

Thursday: West Virginia and Ohio

Friday: Indiana and Illinois

Saturday: Illinois and Iowa (ending in Colo, IA at the famous Reed/Niland corner).

I will be writing from the road as I did in June.  If anyone has any recommendations of things I should see while I’m out and about, let me know.  I especially want to check out old theatres and opera houses of course.

If any of you will be driving too, please let me know!  I would love to see you.

Safe travels!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1910's, 1920s, 1930s, Abraham Lincoln, Buy-Way Weekend, Chicago, Colo, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Lincoln Highway, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Reed/Niland Corner, West Virginia

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