Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for December 31, 2015

Huh. Later Schroeder would make a serious effort to find music written for piano and cigar box banjo precisely so he could perform with Charlie Brown.

What a strong little boy Schroeder is to clunk o’er the head Charlie Brown with a piano.

“Dueling Banjos?” anyone?

I remember “inheriting” a big stack of the old Pack-o-Fun craft magazine as a kid. Egg boxes we had, but corks from wine bottles and cigar boxes were nearly unknown in our hardline rural community. There were a few kids whose grandfathers smoked cigars and they had “cool” cigar boxes with pictures inside and out, to keep their stuff in.

I live in S Europe now, and over the past 15 years natural cork has been replaced by a synthetic material, good for corks (doesn’t crack and break if you’re not good with a corkscrew) but no use for crafts. Do they still have decorated cigarboxes? No one I know smokes anymore.

Thanks a ton, Chuck. Now “Plink, plank, plink, plink” is going to be going through my head the rest of the day.

Charlie Brown is not in Schroder’s league of talent. Kudos for trying.

Schroeder hates cigar box banjo music?

Everyone’s a critic.

That didn’t work well…

Or not …