When Kendall wrote, "I've been to many gatherings of like minded whackos like us, but this has to be the best yet," I decided that just has to be the first quote in next year's Getaway blurb -- it just about sums it up, doesn't it?

Yeah, Mick, Karen K's voice when she sang with you just about blew me away. I've heard her do some really good singing but that was the best. Her voice rang like a silver bell.

And thank you Mick for the insights into how Alaska Mike creates those songs.

Who heard Saul Broudy's concert? What were the highlights? (These Memories threads help everybody share in the stuff they missed because of lack of proper cloning equipment at the camp.)

I remember the first time I met Colleen and Saul, at Camp Letts some years ago. I wasn't involved with putting on the Getaway then, I was just the first person Saul ran into when he arrived and realized there were NO bed linens, pillows, blankets, etc in the cabins. Bill and I always brought enough stuff to furnish a small cottage, and we borrowed more stuff (pillows, etc) from Laura and Peter Sailer, and got them fixed up. By the time Bill and I chased all over the camp to do that, we had spent quite a bit of time chatting with Saul and Colleen, and for me Colleen had already become one of those people where you start to smile inside when you catch sight of them.

That's part of the magic that happens at the Getaway, isn't it? At a "normal" folk festival you enjoy the music together but you're not likely to feel that you're spending time with 100 or so of the dearest people on earth.

Rita