The Bert and I stuff is still available: http://www.bertandi.net/ I remember Marshall Dodge. I first saw him live at the Fox Hollow Folk Festival, but most vividly I remember after the Great Boston Blizzard of 1978: The entire city was shut down for a week. Marshall Dodge was living in Cambridge at the time, and was scheduled to give a talk on humor in one of the Harvard College house common rooms. Since he lived just a few blocks away, it was one of the few events not cancelled, and I walked all the way to Harvard from my home in Brookline to hear him. He expounded on big places having humor of expansion and small places having humor of contraction, all profusely illustrated with stories that had us in stitches. It was worth the long boot-clad trek through snow-blocked streets. My journey gave the lie to "you can't there from here." These days, I commute to work in downtown Washington, DC, where there a lot of tourists, and when they ask me for directions, there are a whole batch of Marshall Dodge lines I get to use on them. --Charlie Baum
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