... freshly back from listening to ALL the previously mentioned music types and styles at the great and venerable Fox Valley Folk Fesival. My batteries are now fully charged.

Martin Gibson, I didn't see you there at Fox Valley -- so I ate your funnel cake. ;-)

Frank, I may have mentioned I got to take one lesson from you at the OTSFM, and then you joined the Weavers. It was the last formal lesson I ever took. After that it was piecemeal---bits and pieces from folks all over the U.S.A. ---! Back then it was obvious to me what a gift it was to have that single lesson from a master. (What you showed the group that day in Chicago was how to pick Pete's "Livin' In The Country" as it was picked by the two of you on your LP called Nonesuch--on Folkways. Thanks so much for what you showed me way back then, and also, now, in your good post. The cream does rise to the top !!!

Art Thieme