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Video On Demand
 Some of our new releases this month on BlueHighways On Demand include a Bluegrass special hosted by Ronnie Reno titled American Journeys: The
Families of Bluegrass. This special features profiles and music from some of the founding families of Bluegrass music including Jim & Jesse McReynolds, historic footage of the Stanley Brothers and exclusive performances
and interviews with the Cox Family, Ralph Stanley, the Whites and so much more. 
Also look for episodes of The Branson Jam which will feature music of Tony Orlando, Mickey Gilley, the comedy of Jim Stafford and exclusive performances from the late Boxcar Willie and Eddie Rabbitt.
We also want to welcome the folks in Redding, CA who have Charter Communications as there cable provider. BlueHighways On Demand will be launching in Redding next month.
Click here to find out if we're in your area. If by chance you still can't find us
click here to request us.
Cable
Throughout the month of October there will be new episodes of the Sunday Sampler which is a collection of classic gospel music videos and original performances from the 1980s and 1990s.
 Look for a 2-part retrospective on the historic Renfro Valley Barn Dance on Reno's Old Time Music Festival October 14th and 16th at 7:30pm
(EST). This look back at one of Country and Bluegrass music's most significant radio and stage shows features classic footage that was thought to be lost featuring performances from some of the original legends of the show.
 The following week, on America's Backroads October 22nd at 7pm (EST) Michael Martin Murphey performs an outdoor concert at the base of
historic Chimney Rock outside Scottsbluff, NE. This special also features storytelling and a look back at the infamous Oregon Trail.
 Later in the month, make sure you take a trip on old Route 66 on October 27th at 7pm (EST) when host Michael Wallis takes Cruisin' up to
northern Arizona to visit an old gold mine and a museum club.
If BlueHighways TV isn't available yet on your local cable system, view us full time on the internet at TVU Networks.com channel 640.
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Folk Festival
Folk music legend Rosalie Sorrels stopped by to talk with BlueHighways TV producer, Lisa Fenderson (left) and video grapher, Joe Leonardi (right) at the Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon. Rosalie's interview, which is
spiced with her stories and a moving acapella song will be part of an upcoming BHTV show on this small mountain town's festival that has received international attention. Joining Rosalie will be Tim O'Brien, The Wailin' Jennys,
StoneHoney, Jonathan Byrd, Ray Bonneville, Richard Julian, and Susan Werner. We want to thank Bend Broadband, the cable system in that area.
The OZ of...
Ice Cream
A road trip to Le Mars, Iowa
By Denise Hitchcock
If there is an OZ of ice cream – it's Le Mars, Iowa, home to Wells Blue Bunny Ice Cream. Geographically this area is mostly flat western prairie, but the one rise in Le Mars is topped with the gleaming white Blue Bunny plant, visible from
all points in town, and lighted at night.
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Recipe
Apple Dumplings
Recipe By: Kelly Twins
 Serves: 4
4 apples -- peeled and cored
4 cups apple cider
1 cinnamon stick
4 each puff pastry -- 5"x5" squares
1 lemon -- zest only
1/3 cup butter -- softened
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup walnut -- or pecans
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water
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On August 29th, 2008, Stan Hitchcock was inducted into the America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame. Joining Stan on stage is Bob Everhart, President of the National Traditional Country Music Association.
Each year the association honors those artists and individuals who have made significant contributions to the roots music of this great nation. BlueHighways TV Ronnie Reno was also inducted this year into the Hall of Fame but
was unable to appear in person because of the touring schedule of The Reno Tradition. Other artists in addition to Stan and Ronnie to be inducted over the museum's 33 year history include: Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams Sr.,
Johnny Cash, the Carter Family including June Carter Cash, Patsy Montana, Jimmy Martin, Red Foley and many more. To find out more about the museum and the yearly festival
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Henry Fortner
By Bob Bilyeu
In the choir room at South Haven Baptist Church where I was the minister of music for thirty-five years is a beautiful plaque honoring members who have passed away. It is called the Henry Fortner Honor Roll. We named it after Henry
because of his faithfulness to the choir. He almost never missed a rehearsal or a service. Henry did have one problem though he couldn't sing. He got the words right but his entrances, cutoffs and his pitch were at the best random. He
wasn't sure if he were a tenor or a bass, so he sat between the two sections. We had hoped this would keep him from getting either section off their part. It often, in fact, got both parts off.
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Front Porch
1959
By Stan Hitchcock
Next year will mark my 50th year in music. It seems a lifetime ago, and I guess it really is.
I got out of the Navy in 1958 and moved back to my hometown of Springfield, Missouri in the heart of the Ozarks. My Uncle Bob Johnson was Pastor of Seminole Baptist Church in Springfield and my family and I started attending about every
Sunday. Brother Bob introduced me to a family of young college students that had formed a gospel singing group called "The Waymakers". I say family because everyone in the group, except one, was related. They were the Bilyeu family from
way down in the Ozark Mountains and upon hearing them sing for the first time……I wanted to sing with them.
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Click here to listen to "Family Bible"
A Special Gift
By Ronnie Reno  L-R Ronnie Reno, Mary Doub, Gabrielle Gray, Kitsy Kuykendall, Mike Lawing
One of the highlights of the IBMA convention held here in Nashville on Oct.1st was when I presented some of my Dad's and Red's memorabilia to the International Bluegrass Music Museum. I am very proud of the fact that Don Reno and Red
Smiley are in the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. I was able to give the museum some more of the personal treasure's that I have of Dad's and Red's. I presented them some old posters that I have saved of the band back in the middle 50's.
What was so great was that they used them as cue cards while doing TV shows. They would write down songs that they didn't know and the floor producer would hold them up beside the camera while they would sing them live on their "Top Of the
Morning" TV show. I was also able to give them Red's dog tags from WWII and some old pictures of them along with a tie clap of Red's and some cuff links of Dad's.
If you ever get the chance please go by and visit the IBMM in Owensboro KY. and tell them Ronnie sent you by,
Frizzell & Friends
Joe Stampley, Tess & Allen Frizzell, Jimmy Fortune, David, Johnny Lee, Helen Cornelius, and Lacy J Dalton
Frizzell & Friends will air Wednesday, November 12th at 7pm eastern.
Click Here to hear a sample of the song "This Is Our Time"
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