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Robert Fanning began as a trader in Wall Street when he was 23 years old. Mastering the profession of trading he and seeing the direction America was taking in the early 90's he bought a business and relocated to Montana to take up the fight for our freedoms. A strong proponent of the 10th Amendment he is determined to demonstrate in Montana what must happen around the country as Americans take back their country.
Site: Campaign site
John Fanuzzi is a businessman in Montana who underwent the trauma of loss caused by corrupt practices of a local bank. He is now running a basalt quarry, open and in use for many years. Basalt can be used to produce an alternative to steel, which is lower in weight and stronger. This application is now in use outside the United States. The material can be processed locally and without impact on the environment.
The resulting metal does not corrode and lasts far longer than steel and can be used in a variety of applications, including rebar but also for the production of vehicles.
Site: Quarry
Leslie Fish is a legend in folk music. Her own bio is, itself, an interesting insight into who she is ans why her voice, and music, must be heard.
"I play 12-string guitar, 6-string guitar, some electric guitar, recorder and penny-whistle (not terribly well), autoharp, hand-drum, and I can fake it on electric bass. Keyboards? Hah! Just well enough to pick out a tune for transcribing. Plus my voice, of course. When I got my first guitar at 16 I'd already been into folk music, singing it anyway, for years; I spent about an hour a day playing/practicing with it, and would have done more if my parents hadn't yelled at me to quit making that godawful racket and do my homework. I think Mom was particularly pissed off because she'd tried for years to teach me piano (and Classical lyric-soprano singing -- even though my voice was obviously alto) because she wanted me to befome a proper Classic-music pianist/singer and maybe wind up at the Met -- and none of it took. Instead I was busy "wasting time with that awful cowboy music". Now that I'm successful enough to make my living at That Wretched Stuff, she never asks me anything about music. *Snicker* I use [a verse-long instrumental break] for dramatic purposes: to prepare the audience emotionally for the last (summarizing or punch-line) verse, or to heighten tension before the resolution. Naturally, the "break" can't be allowed to bore the audience, so I play my damndest then.
...Which songs am I proudest of? Well, there are a lot of them, but I'd have to say that "Hope Eyrie" heads the list. It's gone the farthest and influenced the most people. Oh, the tales I could tell about that one -- how it came to be written, how it became the anthem of the fandom/pro-space movement, how it was translated into Polish, smuggled into Poland and became the underground anthem of Solidarnosc -- hell, ask me later; Other songs I'm proud of: "Freedom Road", "They Were Having a Sale at the Gun-Store", "The Cripples' Shield-Wall", "White Man's Rain Chant (Lord of Thunders)" --they're all good solid songs, and they all have workable magic.
Song I'm least proud of: "Banned From Argo", no contest! I wrote it to order, to fill in a four-minute shortage on the master tape when we were recording SOLAR SAILORS, and hoo- boy, do I ever regret it! The damned piece of fluff became damn-near as popular as "Hope Eyrie".
My current filk-book has over 100 songs in it (I haven't counted), and there's my Kipling collection (at least another 50), my Pagan songs (at least 25 there) all the Misty Lackey poems I put tunes to that I don't have copies of (another 25 or so), plus some purely folkie-political stuff I have in other books at home. Say at least 200, maybe 300 -- and I'm constantly adding to it, so I have no way to tell.
Favorite filksong that I didn't write: "Worms of the Earth", by a band called Clam Chowder, popular around the SCA for the past couple of years. I heard it at Pennsic 19 and it blew me away. (Well, wait until I've been to another filksing, and that may change.) WOTE is one beautifully- written song, set purely "in period", and with a moral that I can't help agreeing with. Hmm, I can't say whether it's a filksong or actually a folksong; the border between the two is exceedingly fuzzy.
Site: Leslie Fish
Cindy Fish is a healer whose background is founded on her Cherokee ancestors. Beginning with this ancient wisdom Cindy uses a full range of health modalities and 25 years of unique Natural Health Experience with Whole Food Nutrition and Herbs as an Educator and a Practitioner. She has also
studied with Naturopathic M.D.'s and Auyurvedic Healers, Aromatherapists, Master Herbalists, Energy Healing Professionals and Longevity Experts worldwide.
Cindy currently utilizes Natural Blood Chemistry Analysis & Compass Energy Analysis among many other tools to navigate clients towards optimum health and reverse disease, as well as, teaching a Healthy Lifestyle (Superfoods) to promote, protect and nurture ongoing health and longevity.
Site: Ashtabula Renewal
