Every Second Sunday afternoon and evening, there is a "Word & Words Fest" at The Logos Lutheran Bible Camp at Miss Fortune Lake, named for Miss Fortunata Fortune, who deeded the lake and all the land around it to The Periwinkle County Board for perpetual camping activities.
At Word and Words Fest, there is singing and poetry reading and story telling and occasional yodeling, although no one knows exactly how yodeling fits into a festival of words.
Clarie Nathan is quite upset with Mapphew "Mapp" Watkolovich for mentioning that every Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas," because this morning her husband, Randall, is trying to prove him wrong. He's only up to page 43 of the 811 page volume of "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson."
[The author is indebted to the great Matt Watroba, former English teacher and "American Roots" singer, for the correlation between Miss Dickinson and yellow roses. He's also indebted to Matt's "American Roots" partner, The Rev. Robert Jones, for the whole idea of "holy blues."]
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