ashokanWS2012

Yet another great Swing week! I hope your picture is in here! If it's not, it means you probably wouldn't have wanted it published anyway. Click on the little pictures to see the bigger pictures, and click on the big pictures to see the NEXT picture.  Snag any picture you like!  If you could add "photo credit Jon Gersh", I'd appreciate it.  If you'd like a hi-res copy of any of these please send me the full URL of the pictures you'd like. I'd love to hear from you. Happy July, jon-at-planetbanjo-dot-com


The ceremonial folding of the t-shirts
Paul's amazing new gravity-defying bow. Available on his web site.
This was the funniest skit... glad i had my camera for rehearsal!
yikes!
Elissa with the Dean of Swing
The first of the woodshed pictures. This is where the tires hit the pavement, so to speak!
Barry as the Marlboro Man. The Marlboro Man has taken up pipe smoking now.
Kate caught unawares
Miriam, Junior, and Jay
Years ago some new camper asked me if everyone was required to fall in love with Molly. I said yes.
Scootros Scootros Ghali
Elissa con Dobro
Fuzzy, but I like it anyway. Captures the spirit, and all that.
The Grand PoohBah
Daniel, Eric, Junior, Colin, Glenn, Chas (hidden), and Gerald
Daniel, Eric (hidden), Junior, Colin
More of the same session...
Daniel
Colin, Chas, Gerald
Glenn, looking just as good this year as every other year. And now we really get to hear him sing! Very nice.
Ah, to be young and beautiful (Clelia)
Dale and Janice. They're hard to photograph! But we love them just the same.
Cabaret night. Peter, Robbert, Dave, Peter.
Larry
Back to the woodshed! Miriam, Junior, Meghan, Michael, and I suspect that's Dave's left hand at the bottom.
The Chicago gang-land session. Carlos and Rob.
Bass Guy, Tom, Larry, Chas at the daily woodshed guitar summit
Tom, Larry, Joey, Chas at the guitar-cum-mandolin summit
Joey
Tom & Larry
Larry at the woodshed. Sorry I didn't get many good pictures of you, Larry!
Rob, a.k.a., Bass Guy
Pinki and Junior
Jeanne and Rob scoping out the woodshed
Pinki and Junior redux
Rob, Elissa, Darryl
Alvin the L5
Rob listening to a high pitched dog whistle
Elissa had altogether too much fun. I'll have what she's having!
More Elissa... it's hard to stop photographing someone as happy as that
Aha! Caught you! Finally, a half-way decent shot of Daryl.
The thoughtful Pinki/Bonni
Patrick's (standing) sneak attack on the woodshed!
Patrick, I wish you could have stayed the whole week! Not the same without you!
Johnny (foreground) and J-Ro...
J-Ro knitting.... or whatever!
Heeeere's Johnny!
Rare photo of Terry (and curiously, my Snark)
Junior, Pinki, and Dave-from-Chicago
Patrick & Pinki
The new bunk-house to be
Pretty damned impressive actually
The new staff quarters
Another lodging area
These guys were working hard
Porches galore
Rear view of said lodging
The magnificent new Esopus Lodge... huge performance space, airy ceilings, big dining and kitchen area... all unfinished, but getting there!
Lodge porch
These tree-posts were everywhere, nice touch!
Some serious infrastructure!
Nice perspective of the lodgings relative to the Broom shop and new-ish bath-house.
He arrived in a Buttercup. Don't ask!
Nice picture of Kate with her L4
Not too many pictures of the new John B. He subbed for Jim W. who couldn't make it. This guy is great! Anyone with a closet full of Uncle Dave Macon t-shirts is alright with me.
Jeanne
Robbert in the Western Swing orchestra (my '65 stringmaster is in the foreground)
Lance
Very nice picture of Mary! We love you, Mary!
Out of focus, alas, but I like it anyway
Eric in the Western Swing Orchestra
Stephanie, Wendy, and Carla (sp?)
Miriam with the Junior Juice
The impossibly adorable Chloe
Junior leads the Western Swing Orchestra
Junior and Marian
Marian, Peter, John
Who the $%^& runs marathons at our age?
New Jane
Kathy at the woodshed
Dave with Alvin
Best shot of Jeanne
The other Jay
Chuck comes out of the woodwork
Conchi! You're underrepresented in these pictures! Jimmy at the drums.
I'm not sure what class this was
Our new steel hawkeye, Dr. Jim
Planet Banjo rocks! I have a similar picture from many different years. Jon, Pinki, Vicki, Nancy, Kathy. Photo credit to Colin.
Paul A.
Paul's class... not sure which one.
Stan worked like a dog this week, building a new retaining wall of stones near the wiggly bridge.
Terry and Nica
What in the world are you doing?? Cellphone tai-chi??
Mary with her big new specs
The workstation. I'm definitely not convinced that cell phones and computers have made this a better camp.
The kids, plugged in... and not the way we used to define plugged in (that is, with amplifiers)
Looks like mostly spam to me
Pinki and Johnny
Bjorn
Kate and Kathy
Paul's Mexican Orchestra. Damned good! Billy in the foreground on the xylophone.
More of Paul's Mexican orchestra
Nice shot of John K.
Paul's orchestra
Rob, Peter, Joey
Micheal and Rob (back row), Jay, Leslie, Peter (front row)
Kathy and Chuck blurring on the dance floor
A more natural picture of Dale and Janice
Kate, Patsy, Molly, and Robbert
Nica was inordinately proud of her mug. And what a mug it is.
Junior and Paul at the woodshed
Ah, this one is better....
Accidental artsy shot
Junior's fiddle class performs
Jon and Robbert on the steel in the Western Swing orchestra, Chas in the background
Kathy, doing her Anne J. impression
The new Meghan (sp?) was a most excellent addition to Junior's... harem? cabal? riff-raff?
No explanation needed
Bjorn and Amy
Clelia in a slightly less flattering portrait... but i like it anyway!
Scooter and Johnny
Esther and John P. We'll sure look forward to having John off the injured-reserve list next year!
John and Joyce. In all fairness, they were mugging for the camera as usual, and I specifically asked them to look more natural. They were very obedient :-)
Barry (seated) with Doug T.
Anna
Catherine, how do you keep looking so good year after year? It's not fair.
Karla with Blake
J-Ro keeping Scooter company at the T-Shirt table
They actually had girl-cut t-shirts this year. That made kathy very happy
Eric
Micheal with the new Ingrid... love that Aussie pluck! And bow.
Stealth visit by Beverly (with John)
Olivia with Conchi
Kathy and Conchi
Junior signing an autograph for Megan. Dave and Carla on the right,.
Nathan and Elissa cut a rug.
Olivia captures the essence of Rob and Nancy, our newlyweds
Here begins a parade of women all wanting to pose with Junior. Kathy first!
Conchi and Junior
Esther with Junior
Junior and Ingrid
Hey, that's Colin. How did he sneak in there?
Valerie and Guy
Junior with Scooter
Barry and Junior. I had to take the picture from below. I have altogether too many pictures of the top of Junior's hat.
Junior , Chas, and Paul A.
Eric and Molly
Daniel and Tom
The adoring fans. Say, that's the best picture of Laurel this year.
Vinnie's impossibly good looking family. Good luck in college!!
Peter stepped up and did the admin thing this year
Couldn't leave out Cindy and Susie!
Nathan and Giselle attend to Laurel
Good ol' Sandy