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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  Sheila Kay Adams
Sheila Kay Adams comes from a small mountain community in western North Carolina.
For seven generations her family has maintained the tradition of passing down the English, Scottish, and Irish ballads that came over with her ancestors in the late 1700's.
Sheila Kay Adams is available for concerts, storytelling, performances, speaking engagements and workshops.
www.ivycreek.com /sheilakayadams.html   (535 words)

  
  Kay Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kay Adams (played by Diane Keaton) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's The Godfather.
During one of Michael's trips, Kay has an abortion, fearing that another male heir (they already have a son and a daughter at this point) would tie the family to the Mafia forever.
While she initially tells Michael that it was a miscarriage, she is increasingly repulsed by the campaign of murder and terror he wages in his war with Roth, and reveals the truth to him during an argument.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kay_Adams   (435 words)

  
 Mary Kay Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Kay Adams as Grilka in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, with Armin Shimerman (Quark).
Mary Kay Adams (*12 September 1962 in Middletown, New Jersey) is an American actress known for her role as Na'Toth in the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
Her ancestors are John Quincy Adams and John Adams.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Kay_Adams   (149 words)

  
 Family Advocacy Program manager joins team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Kay Adams (left), DSCC's new Family Advocacy Program manager, shakes hands with DSCC quality assurance specialist Andy Stoner while she introduces herself to associates during lunch in the Building 20 cafeteria July 18.
Adams' first goal is to reach out to associates and illustrate her open-door policy in hopes that associates will quickly become comfortable stopping by her office in Building 20 (A159N) and ask for support when needed.
Adams hopes to learn what topics and issues associates are most interested in so that she may provide support and programs that are in the best interest of the work force.
federalvoice.dscc.dla.mil /federalvoice/020731/fapm.html   (374 words)

  
 Sheila Kay Adams at HPL
Sheila Kay Adams comes from a small mountain community in western North Carolina, where seven generations of her family have maintained the tradition of passing down the ballads that came over with her ancestors in the late 1700's.
She sings the traditional Appalachian ballads in the same style in which they were handed down to her, She sounds remarkably like her older kinspeople - the same intensity, the same profound feeling for the ballad, but with a clear, strong voice.
Adams left the North Carolina Public School System after seventeen years to pursue a career sharing the music, stories, and heritage of her culture.
www.ci.hickory.nc.us /library/press/2005/0323adams.htm   (440 words)

  
 WCU NEWS - SHELIA KAY ADAMS TO BE FEATURED IN LUNCHTIME PROGRAM
For seven generations, Adams' family has maintained the tradition of passing down the English, Scottish and Irish ballads brought to America by their ancestors in the late 1700s.
Adams has performed at major festivals and on college campuses across the United States, and has toured in England.
Adams received the prestigious North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Award in recognition of her valuable contributions to the study of North Carolina folklore in 1998.
www.wcu.edu /pubinfo/news/2006/MHCKayAdams.htm   (284 words)

  
 Mary Kay Adams, What a Beautiful Forehead You Have!
Mary Kay Adams has played European royalty, an ambassador's aide, and the head of a noble household, but you'd have only recognized her as the first.
Adams was actually the third Na'Toth cast on Babylon 5, after several previous actresses left the series because the prosthetics were so uncomfortable.
The process of casting is "very, very ethereal" to Adams, who said she could sometimes go to an audition and change someone's mind about the background of a character as she did with India.
www.littlereview.com /getcritical/trektalk/adams.htm   (2204 words)

  
 Wheaton College: Athletics: Mary Kay Adams
Mary Kay Adams, who joined the Wheaton staff in 1993 as head coach of the synchronized swimming team, calls on her 30 years of combined experience as a competitor and as a coach (she began swimming at the age of eight for the Aquanymphs in Dayton, Ohio) to help lead her team to national prominence.
Adams, who earned a bachelor of arts degree in communications from The Ohio State University in 1985, won three national championships in her four-year career on the Buckeyes' synchronized swimming team.
Following her years at OSU, Adams coached an age group team in Oregon for two years and the national team in the summer of 1992.
www.wheatonma.edu /athletics/coach/MaryKayAdams.html   (328 words)

  
 Sheila Kay Adams and Jim Taylor - 2001 National Book Festival (Library of Congress)
Appalachian balladeer, humorist, storyteller and writer, Sheila Kay Adams will be joined on stage by her musician husband, Jim Taylor.
Adams will sing ballads, share stories of her childhood and community, and will play a tune with her husband on banjo and hammered dulcimer.
Sheila Adams is a recipient of the North Carolina Historical Society's award for historical fiction and the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Award for valuable contributions to the study of state folklore.
www.loc.gov /bookfest/2001/adamstaylor.html   (155 words)

  
 Music Preview: Sheila Kay Adams spins the tales passed down through generations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Adams' performance at Carnegie Lecture Hall, courtesy of Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, offers a rare treat.
In her comfortable drawl, Adams continues the tradition with updated takes on ancient classics and original stories about her small-town upbringing, augmenting the tales with clawhammer banjo picking.
Adams has branched into other media with books, musical and spoken-word recordings, a public radio show and appearances in several films, including "Songcatcher" in 2000.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05132/502873.stm   (565 words)

  
 FAP office opens in Building 21
Adams formerly had a single office located in Building 20 Room A159N, but is happy to now also hold hours at another site.
Associates are encouraged to take advantage of the FAP when they have concerns in their personal and work lives, such as wanting to improve communication, handling stress and change, and dealing with conflict or violence in the workplace.
Employees can call Adams at 614-692-7217 to schedule a one-on-one or group family appointment, and must inform their supervisor that they will be away from their desk during the meeting.
federalvoice.dscc.dla.mil /federalvoice/031119/fap.html   (340 words)

  
 Mary Kay Adams ~ India von Halkein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Mary Kay Adams rejoined Guiding Light in November of 1998 as the Baroness India von Halkein.
Mary Kay devotes her time and energy to supporting charaties that provide AIDS care, as well as The American Cancer Society and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
Mary Kay was born in Middletown, New Jersey, and currently resides in New York City.
www.members.tripod.com /~BlossLover/marykayadamsbio.html   (145 words)

  
 Guest Messages
The "Adams Family" with their daughter La`Trondra and their son Junior lived in the Years 1982 1983 in Germany in Bavarian in the house of my parents in "Atzmannsricht".
I am the daughter of Geroge L Adams, son of Luther Adams, grandson of George M. Adams and greatgrandfather is William Adams.
Greenberry Adams, Married Bashba L. Harrington, Bashba was born July 29,1861 in Mississippi and her death was in Miami, Oklahoma in 1928.
www.rwadams.org /Guest.cfm   (1778 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Wheels & Tears: Music: Kay Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Adams even pays homage to a West Coast foremother, Rose Maddox with a fine version of "Big, Big Day Tomorrow," a great old weeper that Rose recorded a few years earlier.
In real life the closest Kay ever got to a truck was to have her brothers who did.
Despite being primarily a West Coast artist, Kay was popular enough to win the CMA new artist in 1965 but the pressures of success were too much for her to bare.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002B16EG?v=glance   (714 words)

  
 Charities - Mary Kay Adams Official Fan Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Below are but a few of the worthwhile endevors that Adams has lended her support, time, money and, most importantly, her spirit towards...
While in California, Mary Kay Adams often contributed her time to the excellent work pursued by Project Angel Food.
In 1999, Mary Kay Adams, Victoria Platt(Vicky) and Saundra Santiago (Carmen) were among the many soap stars playing softball at Midwood High School in Brooklyn on Saturday, June 5.
www.reelrealm.com /adams/charities.html   (331 words)

  
 The UNC Press, Come Go Home with Me by Sheila Kay Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
We meet Bertha and the snake handlers, local preacher Manassey Fender (who 'looked like a pencil with a burr haircut, in a suit'), and Adams's beloved grandfather Breaddaddy, who taught her about life and death with an enchanting graveyard dance.
But perhaps the most powerful character depicted here is 'Granny,' whom Adams calls 'the most exciting person I have ever known and the best teacher I would ever have.' By weaving these remembrances into her stories, Adams both preserves and extends a rich artistic heritage.
Sheila Kay Adams, a former public school teacher, now pursues a career of sharing the music, stories, and heritage of her mountain culture.
uncpress.unc.edu /books/T-880.html   (256 words)

  
 Kay Adams, I Never Got to Nashville Lyrics
Kay Adams, I Never Got to Nashville Lyrics
Kay Adams - I Never Got to Nashville Lyrics
Kay Adams - I Never Got to Nashville
www.cowboylyrics.com /lyrics/adams-kay/i-never-got-to-nashville-14824.html   (129 words)

  
 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Sheila Kay Adams is an acclaimed performer of Appalachian ballads passed down for seven generations through her own ancestors.
She performs year-round at major festivals throughout the United States, as well as in the U.K. She has three children and lives with her husband, Jim Taylor, in Madison County, North Carolina, where she was born.
Sheila Kay Adams brings us a novel inspired by the ballads of the English, Scottish, and Irish.
www.algonquin.com /catalog?isbn=1565124073   (344 words)

  
 The Center for Journal Therapy
The Center for Journal Therapy is the premier source of education and training on the power of writing to heal body, psyche and soul.
Kathleen Adams is one of the living masters in the field of writing and healing.
She shares her unique depth of understanding through consultation, program development, training, speaking, teaching, facilitating groups, coaching and counseling.
www.journaltherapy.com   (375 words)

  
 * Dusted Reviews - Kay Adams *
Kai Fagaschinski / Bernhard Gal - Going Round in Serpentines
I’m a gear-swappin’ mama, and I don’t know the meaning of fear.” Adams’ vocal style carried a hint of Wynette’s lovelorn sob, a good helping of Wanda Jackson’s sassy, husky-throated rockabilly abandon, and a sense of emotional openness the equal of Connie Smith’s.
More than just a novelty tune, “Little Pink Mack” was a friendly- but- firm challenge to the testosterone and diesel-fueled world of the “knights of the highway,“ long distance truckers.
www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1618   (234 words)

  
 Training | Certified Poetry/Journal Therapy Distance Learning Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Here is your opportunity to study intensively and extensively with Kay Adams, through the convenience of the internet and your phone line.
Kathleen Adams is approved by the Federation as a Mentor/Supervisor and is authorized to direct the training programs of qualified individuals.
1) Contact Kay Adams by email at KAdamsRPT@aol.com and announce your intention to apply for the October 2005 program start.
www.journaltherapy.com /training/cptdl.html   (1112 words)

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