Aloha International next week-July 14-16

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 7 Jul 2005 4:09 pm

Next week in Winchester, Indiana. Thursday July 14 through Saturday the 16th!

Guest of honor, Steve Cheney (steeler for the Polynesian Cultural Center - Oahu, Hawaii)

Duke Ching, Herb Hanawahine, Bobby Ingano (Saturday only), L.T. Zinn, Doug Smith, Gerald Ross, Mike Scott, Ian Ufton...

Who's going?

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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'

CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association

[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 07 July 2005 at 06:11 PM.]

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 7 Jul 2005 5:06 pm

Here's a little extra something that may bring you to Winchester, Indiana next week.

A group of elderly farm women in Winchester have produced a nude calendar to help raise funds to save the 128 year-old Randolph County Courthouse(very cool building and Civil War monument).

Read this: http://nwitimes.com/articles/2005/06/30/updates/odds_and_ends/3d26142a42e537 cb86257030005fde53.txt

I heard a radio interview with the woman who coordinated the calendar.

She didn't mention anything about the convention or Bobby Ingano or L.T., just "calendar, calendar, calendar, nude, nude, nude", sheesh!

She did mention BJ's restaurant the place we jam in the evening. She went on and on about their wonderful cheeseburgers.

I thought she could of at least mentioned a little something about the B11 tuning or reverse slants on long scale steels (but nooooooooooo! pretty selfish if you ask me

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I'll get a calendar and report back!

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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'

CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association

[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 07 July 2005 at 07:36 PM.]

Andy Barlo · Post by **Andy Barlo** » 8 Jul 2005 4:54 am

I'll be at the AISGA convention but I don't think I'll even touch this thread.

Howard Clark · Post by **Howard Clark** » 8 Jul 2005 5:27 am

I'll be there, but I hope the place isn't swarming with calendar collectors. Nude farming, what a concept.[This message was edited by Howard Clark on 08 July 2005 at 06:28 AM.]

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 8 Jul 2005 6:04 am

Wish I could go ...

But at least one of my "Babies" will be there ... on Saturday

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Aiello's House of Gauss


My wife and I don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless and I donate money to the topless! ... R. Dangerfield

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 8 Jul 2005 6:09 am

Is the ordering information available?

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 8 Jul 2005 6:17 am

I doubt you could get the calendar anywhere but in the Winchester area.

The radio interviewer asked the calendar woman if there was a website where orders could be placed and got a "No". No mail order either. The interviewer asked for a mailing address or phone number and the woman refused to give either out over the air.

These farm women may know their apple cobbler, but marketing is not one of their strengths. They got some good press and publicity and failed to run with it.

I'm sure the calendars will be available at all Winchester area cash registers.

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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'

CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association

[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 08 July 2005 at 07:24 AM.]

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 8 Jul 2005 9:45 am

Here's a little extra something that may bring you to Winchester, Indiana next week.

I know that Harry D. is on his way....

Well, I hope there's at least one month that includes a walker...

Bill Creller · Post by **Bill Creller** » 8 Jul 2005 10:58 am

I'll be there, but I'll pass on the calender.

Andy Barlo · Post by **Andy Barlo** » 8 Jul 2005 11:54 am

Hmmmm. If I were an 80 or 90 year old woman and I posed nude for a calander, would I or would I not give out me address or phone number. I'd have to think about that one.

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 8 Jul 2005 12:06 pm

I really doubt that P.O. boxes are that hard to come by in Winchester. They could of got one for $30 for a year and used that as their "office".

But I see your point Andy.

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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'

CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association

[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 08 July 2005 at 06:05 PM.]

Ron Simpson · Post by **Ron Simpson** » 8 Jul 2005 2:01 pm

Mahalo for the article. Do you think that I could donate money without having to look at the calendar?

Harry Dietrich · Post by **Harry Dietrich** » 8 Jul 2005 6:55 pm

Not me Howard........I don't want to have a stroke looking at those "nasty" calendars. LMAO!!

Harry

Jeff Au Hoy · Post by **Jeff Au Hoy** » 8 Jul 2005 7:21 pm

I'll bet there's at least one guy out there having a stroke over that calendar.