When I saw that the Telluride Bluegrass Festival was celebrating its 50th annual festival this year (2023), I had to pause and do some counting. Like so many events, the festival was cancelled in 2020—it would have marked the 47th annual occurrence. But they counted the year anyway—the next year was 48, 2022 was 49, … Continue reading On celebrating anniversaries as planned (and leaving COVID out of it) →