The Vinyl Solution ..In April 1999 Arlington Virginia Central Library Got Rid Of All Their Vinyl Records And I Went To Take A Look

I went to take a look but did not buy the collection because it was scratched and uninteresting. All the good things were long gone. But I was there when the Washington Post Reporter was there or at least the photographer was there and asked me to pose with a library employee for a picture. And that is how I got my picture in The Washington Post on April 7th, 1999.
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Bare Bottom Blues Pictures From Mobile Alabama And Dauphin Island 1971 By Bhob Stewart

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More Pictures Of Rachel Stewart And Her Family

The above picture is one of the last sunsets we saw on Sanibel Island Florida this past January 2014.
Click to enlarge it. Florida. has the best sunrises and sunsets of any place I know. Rachel took this picture and posted it on her blog.

Picture of Rachel and her 5 brothers and 2 sisters way back when. She is the oldest and is holding her cat.

Rachel and some C&O Canal friends. She is on the front row bottom right.

Rachel driving a canal boat somewhere in Europe.

Here is one of Rachel I had not seen before.

Rachel and I long ago. I haven't worn bluejeans is over 15 years. Here she is making waffles. This photo is from so long ago. Maybe 20 years ago. Ray took this picture sometime around 1994..

Ray Stewart and Joe B.long ago. Same Christmas as above.

Ray next to his mother and holding his little boy Matthew. And the rest a bunch of Lefebures eating crabs as usual. This one is from not long ago.  Maybe 3 or 4 years ago.

Rachel, Tara, Ray and Joe B. after Matthew's baptism Maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
Ray and Tara's place New York City. The way we were.

More Photos Of Joe And Rachel In Southampton August 2013

Montauk Lighthouse.

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Rachel took this picture at Montauk Point of a fisherman and his catch.

She said they were bluefish.

And this is the other sweet picture of Rachel I was looking for.
Rachel at the Montauk Lighthouse.

The one above is really from July 2013 at the beach with Obree and Matthew her two grandsons.

The picture  above was taken in July 2010.

Rachel And Joe In Southampton One Year Ago.....August 2013

These photos were taken by Rachel Stewart last August 2013.

This is the picture I was really looking for. I can't remember if I took this picture of Rachel myself or if she did it herself with her own camera and timer. Click on these pictures to enlarge them.

One year ago today Rachel and I left our home in Arlington Virginia to go to Southampton on Long Island to house sit for Ray and Tara while they were away on vacation. Lucky us. The book I am reading in the top photo  is a memoir by Willie Morris about his friend James Jones. It is titled "A FRIENDSHIP". 
Willie Morris lived in Sagaponack back in the 1970s and so did James Jones.

I had no way of knowing how special this vacation for us would become. Along with her 3 weeks in the South of France in September with her C&O Canal friends and their World Canal Conference these were some of her last really good days.

We did go to Sanibel Island in Jan. 2014 as we always did for the last 15 years but she was suddenly much sicker then. Still we had no idea how bad it really was. Not until we got back to Va. and she went in the Northern Va. Hospital in Arlington, Va and had the biopsy on Feb. 10th and we got the results on Feb. 13 that it was mesothelioma. A deadly fatal lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos which could have occurred 30 or 40 years ago.

They told us she might live 3 to 6 months. That was very wrong. She died on March 8th, 2014. Only 18 days after we left the hospital. It was like losing her in a car wreck or train wreck or airplane crash.
It was too sudden. And too terrible.

So I want to post some photos from one year ago August 2013. A far happier time. She was ill but we did not know just how ill. I later said we had been living in a fool's paradise. I meant we thought she would live along time with what she had been diagnosed in Feb. 2013 as having(pulmonary fibrosis).
We never heard the word mesothelioma or lung cancer until Feb.13th 2014. It was a heart breaking diagnosis.

New Book About Bob Dylan I Have Been Waiting For For 50 Years From Tapes Made By His Road Manager and Bodyguard Victor Maymudes

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/books/a-dylan-insiders-back-pages.html

 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/books/a-dylan-insiders-back-pages.html

Cut and paste the above link in Yahoo or Google search to read about this forthcoming book due out in September.
This will be the real insiders story told by Victor Maymudes Bob's friend and road manager from the early days.
Search on this blog for more on Victor Maymudes and Bob Dylan.

Here is the book as shown on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/dp/125005530X/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

And here is my post about Bob Dylan at Mardi Gras in New Orleans in Feb. 1964.

Search blogspot.com tally ho!...search bob dylan mardi gras 1964.

My material was used by Robert Shelton in his bio of Dylan titled NO DIRECTION HOME.
Now I see from reading pages in this book Jacob Maymudes has also used my material about that Mardi Gras in his book. He used my quotes as well. I told him a year ago he could use my material if he would give me credit. But he has put my words in his father's telling of the events of that Mardi Gras.  He ripped me and my words off. And he does not give me credit.
Instead he changed some few things and got many of the facts wrong.

Compare the quotes in this new book with what I wrote back in 2009
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Plus I have much more detailed information on Bob Dylan at that Mardi Gras. Look at my blog post for the real  true story of what went on at that Mardi Gras 1964.
http://joeb-tallyho.blogspot.com/2009/12/bob-dylan-at-mardi-gras-new-orleans-feb.html

You can also click on the Label Mardi Gras 1964 Bob Dylan in the Label box below to find my posts about that time and place. And click on the Label No Direction Home to read what I and Robert Shelton wrote in his book of that same name. And you will clearly see where Jacob Maymudes stole my words and writings and put them in his book claiming they came from his father's tapes.
I challenge him to provide audio tapes of his father saying those words.

Joe B. Stewart And Rachel Lefebure Stewart A Few Years Ago

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Rachel Lefebure and Joe B. Stewart at the Rice Hotel in DeKalb Illinois March 1965

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This picture was taken in the Rice Hotel in DeKalb, Illinois in March 1965. That is Joe B. Stewart looking at Rachel Lefebure and already falling in love. Little did he know that she would be his wife for 49 years. Little did she know that either.
I don't know who took the picture but whoever took it thank you very much.
At the top it says April 1965. It would have been developed then in New Orleans shortly after Rachel and I got there.

Joe B. Stewart And Rachel Lefebure Stewart Rhode Island 1983

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Happier Days. Good times. It is nice to be young.

Rachel Lefebure And Joe B. Stewart After Their Marriage on March 11, 1966

Rachel Lefebure and Joe B. Stewart after their wedding on March 11, 1966.
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