Yam Queen Dress
The Yam Queen and her court, along with the nearby Tyler Rose Festival Queen and her court, provide quite a bit of revenue to area seamstresses.
posted by marjorie @ 11:32 AM
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- The Corrections Brilliant, razor-sharp, and haunting
- The Poisonwood Bible The perfect novel - amazingly written and absolutely beautiful
- Paula Does Isabel Allende take life coaching gigs?
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- Independent People by Halldor Laxness
- These are not sweet girls An anthology of Latin American women poets
- Anything by Philip Levine A worker's poet
- Chile from Within A beautiful and haunting photographic remembrance and personal history of the events surrounding Allende's overthrow and takeover by Pinochet, including the 15 years of disappearances and reign of state terror
- Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness An anthology of resistance poetry that remembers and sings even in times of horror around the world -- about the horror
- Tender Mercies This movie makes me homesick
- Antonia's Line This week I advocate a really weird philosophical family epic about life and death and really weird people you just have to love. Beautiful and funny and with a hilarious sex scene like you've never experienced.
- The Big Chill My life's challenge: how to maintain my ideals and passion no matter what
- Reality Bites So funny! So '90s! Do we need anything else?
- Garden State So gently warm and funny, especially if you love Zach Braff-type nerds like I do
- The Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson is a genius
- American Beauty Alan Ball is a genius
- Miles Davis -- Kind of Blue The beauty of this album sustains
- Damien Rice: O I LOVE this CD. It's just haunting. Perfect for a quiet moment. Soooo good.
- The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow This is one of my favorites, and from Albuquerque boys, too! I mean, how perfect a song is "Mine's Not a High Horse"? PERFECT, I tell you!
- Iron & Wine and Calexico: In the Reins If you like Iron & Wine (I do) and you like Calexico (I do), give this collaboration a try. Each song is good for distinctly different reasons. It works, but unexpectedly so.
- The Grateful Dead: American Beauty I'm not a dead head - in fact this is the only album of theirs i have. But Box of Rain is incredible.
- X:Under the Big Black Sun Just great punk rock, with a poet on the mic, and a little bit of a country twang.
- Steve Earle:The Revolution Starts Now Steve Earle gives me hope for Texas.
- The Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo This is quickly becoming my fave country album - and it's by the Byrds!
- Fiddling Contest
- At the Yamboree Chicken Judging
- Cynicism vs. Optimism -- where do you fall?
- Waayyy inside joke at corporate America
- In the hood? Meet Us at Pearl's
- Very Exciting New Book
- Horoscope Time Again
- Alibi's Haiku Contest
- Motto
- You missed it! Moving Music
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2 Comments:
I always remember how you told me once that the Yam Queen is always the richest girl in town :-)
yep--pretty much always is--except for rare occasions when daddy refuses to play.
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