Re: the Yorkist Ballad Charade Society -- it started from Kathy Westra and Charlie West talking about a silly line in a ballad (They shook hands and hugged or kissed) and I know it's been going on for at least TEN years -- performed at the Getaway, Pinewoods Folk Music Week, and another more "private" gathering in May. -- It may even be about 12 years old -- I'll have to look it up somewhere. I know it's always photographed, and some years it has been video taped. I know in 1991 my son Andrew got to be Willie's Lady's baby at the end of the ballad! (And Bennett Hammond of the Boston area played Willie's lady -- Yorkist does not do TYPE casting!)

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