Re: Russ, "It's in the book ... "

Okay, Roger -
I'm in the Book *
So now it's up to YOUSE GUYS to come up with enough of a PARTY to Celebrate the 125th ANNIVERSARY of the RR arriving in Chama to make a 750-miles-each-way trip worthwhile ...
Like maybe a couple of runs up to Lobato or maybe even Cresco, where the engine could run around the train, IF the snow isn't too deep by December 31.
And some kind of party, with dance-able live music but also including a few classic RR songs. Is there anyplace in Chama where several dozen die-hard foamers could have a celebration? It's New-Years AND the 125th of the D&RGW - a pretty good combination!!
BTW, to the best of my recollection, the song "There'll be a HOT TIME ... in the OLD TOWN ... to-NI-i-IGHT!!! was written to celebrate the D&RGW's arrival in Durango a few months later.
- Russo de los Locos
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* "IT'S in the Book", by Johnny Standley, was an all-time favorite recording among us Sperry siblings when I was growing up in the early fifties - Please enjoy the following in celebration of the life of a Wyoming sheepherder and hard-core railfan, U.P. Joe Passentino:
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From the 4-H recordbook of a Miss Beaudalia ('Bo') Peep, concerning a livestock project gone quite seriously awry -
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"It goes here, in the book, that Little Bo Peep, who WAS a little girl, has lost her sheep, and doesnt't know WHERE to find them."
"Now that's REASONABLE, isn't it?"
"If the sheep were lost, it's only NATURAL that she WOULDN'T know WHERE to FIND them ... "
"... But, 'LEAVE them ALONE!'"
"Now that overwhelms me ...
COMPLETELY overwhelms me!"
"The man says she lost the sheep
... turns right around and BOLDLY states,
'She doesn't know WHERE to find them'
"and then has the stupid AUDACITY to say,
'Leave them alone'."
"Now think. Think for a moment ..."
"If the sheep were lost,
and you couldn't find them ...
You'd HAVE to leave them alone, wouldn't you?"
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