Anthony Thomas:  

CLASS OF 1965
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Weaver High SchoolClass of 1965
Hartford, CT

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BEST IS LOOK AT ALL MY PICTURES THAT SAY MORE THAN I SAY HERE. PICS FROM AROUND THE WORLD do not like how this forum doesnt provide a way to memorialize or inquire about classmates who have passed away, now more of a factor at our age, though my heart is more concert with folks in our class who died fairly young and young to me is under 60! Iin West Palm Beach florida, travel a lot, spend time playing folk and old time music, writing about banjo history and musical history, arguing with people on the Internet about the Giants, and volunteer work in support of Pathfinder press being among my current specialities. Life has been good to me . I . I remain retired, focusing my life on travel, music history focused on the banjo including several scholar book publications, and playing old time music, folk, blues, and bluegrass locally, nationally. and internationally Travel has become a big part of my life, since I retired in 2010 I have visited Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Switzerland, Litchtstenstein (smaller than Bloomfield), Italy, the Bahamas, Denmark, Russia, Sweden, England, Morocco, India, Nepal, Guatemala,, Kenya, Mexico as well as most states in the southern US, Colorado, Wyoming, both Dakotas, Utah, and Idaho, California, Illinois, Wisconsin, as well as most major cities on the Eastern Seaboard as well as New York and of course dear old tiny CT. My wife is German and we usually spend 2 to 5 months in Europe since we retired. I have no living family in Hartford any more so have little reason to visit it. I am , wived, and pretty happy involved in performing and writing musical history about banjo playing, the blues and Black music and in helping to produce Pathfinder Books. I hold a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.. I ve been a college professor, a transit inventory control functionary, a major subversive, and a few other things. I have written lots of newspaper, magazine, scholarly journal articles, a couple books, and too much email! I haven't lived in CT since 1968, despite a brief spell back in 1982. I have lived in NYC, the SF-Oakland area of California, briefly in Atlanta and Seattle, but most of the past 30 years in the Miami a...Expand for more
rea I have lived in West Palm Beach since 2012 finding it better paced and priced for the retired life than the hustle and bustle and struggle of Miami. Though I have a number of friends from playing folk music in CT both i nt he area and around the country, I dont think I know anyone from school anymore. I've only been in the area in the past few years when I hired to teach at a banjo camp nearby and to deal with the deaths of my brother and mother. I retired in March 2010 and have richly enjoyed it being able to devote more time and energy to exercise and travel and healthy eating, and to do more work on the banjo music history and playing sides of my life. In 2012 and 2013 I did play with a professional Black old time music band based in NY and while the music making and travel and extra money was nice, it was too much like going back to working. I am, a fanatical fan of the NEW YORK GIANTS and spend too much time following every detail and controversy around the Giants online.. In tht I have a fellow giants internet addict friend from Wethersfield who informed me that Wethersfield high beat weaver in 1966 after we graduated in football. I am quite interested in hearing from people, especially as I know I don't remember everyone by name. If you are the least interested, contact me. If you are the Googling kind, only official correspondence, bills, and legal stuff pertains to Anthony Thomas, everyone living who knows me , everyone I interact with professionally in regard to music playing and scholarship, literary life, and politics refers to me as Tony Thomas. I am on Facebook. I appear in two movies on Banjo History, Jim Carrier's "The Librarian and the Banjo" where you can see me in my house and Marc Field's "Give Me the Banjo" Having lived in South Florida since 1982, I cannot believe that I ever survived living in the frozen wastes of CT. I have a friend who comes down to play music every ST Patricks day from Manchester who showed me a picture of his back yard with snow up to the height of his picnic table. LOL that time of year, I busy pruning my Palm tree and going to the BEach. I urge you all to abandon the frozen wastes of CT and get to where it is warm!
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In  Bernkastle on the Mosel May 27 22
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At Berkeley Old Time Music Conv 2021
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 Iceland Northern Lights 2020
 Iceland Northern Lights 2020 2
Reykjavík Iceland 2019 scene
Super bundled up
Bundled up
Northern lights Reykjavík outer Harbor
 Iceland Northern Lights 2020 1
Snow
Why didnt they do it right in the first place!
at the Gotthard Pass Switzerland Oct 2019
Manarola Oct 2019
On the shore of Lake Cuomo Oct 2019
With Wild Boar Statue in Florence Oct 2019
This is 5 years ago when we could travel.  I am holding a snowball at the stop on the Swiss Train the Bernina Express when it stopped at the continental divide in the Alps where water flows on one side to the Adriatic and M
It's that time again.   I started the day with about 950 of you, there are now only 886.  The number will soon be 800 or less.  I will post things that may protect you for getting axed below.
We have been in Germany since May 18 enjoying ourselves.  Here I am in Bernkastel-Kues on the Mosel yesterday
7 years ago the Great Clare Buehling performs with the unsung great Tim Twiss before the Antietam Early Banjo Gathering.  If there were no Clarke Buehling we would need to invent one, and if were there no Tim Twiss we'd jus
1894 Fairbanks Electric Banjo owned by Tony Thomas
Recent discussion about how hard it is to see baby Moor Hens, a duck like animal we have a lot in South Florida, but luckily out on my walk around the bayou/canal behind our house in West Palm Beach I saw more than I ever s
Best of holiday greetings, whatever your holiday, sorry have not seen so many of you I would have otherwise seen, visited, played music with, talked politics, or shared a meal, shared a laugh, shared a hug, or a glass of go
Mountains and Snow
Playing with John Cohen and Eli Smith and a room full of other in Boone North Carolina,  March 2010,  I felt so honor to get to know a little someone  I had admired for 60 years. I was even more honored when he ended the ap
I take no sides in the government shut down by the big business parties but  I do warn travelers about what my wife and I experienced in 2013 traveling in Wyoming and Montana during the previous government shutdown.  We fou
Anthony Thomas' album, April 27 Alligators Everglades National Park
Anthony Thomas' album, April 27 Alligators Everglades National Park
Anthony Thomas' album, Timeline Photos
Anthony Thomas' album, Timeline Photos
Anthony Thomas' album, Timeline Photos
In Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, where is not snowing,  visiting friends, enjoy food,  playing banjo, getting dentistry I can afford, enjoying the world and getting to work on banjo writing for Oxford Harvard and for Antietam
Outside of the Gran Museo del Mundo Maya in Merida Yucatan  the museum starts in the present with the realities of Mayan life in the Yucatan including lack of land for peasants that forces people to immigrate to the United
Finale of stars from Marinsky, Bolshoi and other Russian Ballets   last night here in Merida
My wonderful dentist doing masterful work to my teeth here in Merida.
Last night had a great dinner and played some great music with fiddler and banjoists Jim P Peterson here on Offenbach Germany.  He is a solid picker and understand about fiddling instead of violining and a great guy
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