Where eagles gather

Still basking in the sounds that came from the Stephen Foster Day at the Folk Cultural Park in White Springs. Like Johnny said, Stephen Foster Memorial. There was a one hour concert in the Bell tower. It began with a playing manually of the tower bells, followed by Johnny Bullard leading us in the state song, Old Folks at Home, substituting brothers for darkies....
There was a hippie type fellow with the tell-tale stickers on his dulcimer case playing Foster songs. His name was Michael Vickey. Next Jan Krautheim played with him on the piano and guitar.
Then came the high light of the day, the singing of the 2014 Jeanie and Stephen contest winners, Amanda Caban and Alexander Solomon. We got to know Alexander before the show began as Melanie and I helped him cinch up his too big tux pants with a safety pin. I told him the lame joke, you need to quit dreaming of Jeanie. He sighed.
They sang individual and the last song together. It is all on my You Tube at john33stokes.
Johnny finished the program by singing Beautiful Dreamer.
Following were fine refreshments. Melanie, Meme and I drove about the town and countryside before making our way back to Lake City and reality.