Sometimes things we want to do for a letter work out really well and sometimes they don’t. That was the case for us this month as two activities did not meet our expectations.

New activity – Wanda KING Blues Band

The Allen Library has a very active event schedule for kids and adults alike and it’s always worth checking out their schedule. This past Friday they had Wanda King and her band playing. Wanda is the daughter of blues legend Freddie King. The band was very good and Wanda has a terrific voice but it was a bit of a disappointment as she came out, sang one song, left and the band played the entire remainder of the hour alone with the exception of one more song from Wanda. Could be she had a good reason, but it still left us wanting as we prefer blues singing to blues band by itself. On the plus side, we got out of the house and listened to some good live music.

New activity – KNOX HENDERSON

Barbara had been to this area a long time ago and remembered it having very funky, unique shops and so since Laura hadn’t ever been we decided to take a drive. First, we looked up several vintage shops, one cute sounding store called Froggie’s Five and Ten and an interesting shop called Art is Art. Both wound up being gone from the location we copied from the website and lots of the existing vintage stores were either closed or very high priced.  

BUT although the day wasn’t exactly what we had expected, we decided to reward ourselves with a bunch of K delights from our Kopel childhood memories: we bought knishes, kasha varnishkes and kishka at Deli News and the day ended with a killer blast from the past.