ARCHIE GREEN's new book---THE BIG RED SONG BOOK---has given a nice nod to the fact that these tapes I made of Paul Durst in '61 (when I was 20) are just about the only real FIELD RECORDINGS ever made of an active I.W.W. member who was actually involved in these extraordinary events from those early years of the twentieth century. I was amazed nobody ever had sought out these people who had so much to tell us about what went down!

Like mountain man Jim Bridger, who sat on the porch of his daughter's home in Kansas City for 15 years, dying, and slowly going blind, nobody ever thought enough to talk with this man who was such a huge part of western and American history. ------ So very much does, seemingly, just get away from us...

I'll come back tomorrow and type out what Archie Green actually had to say in his book's back pages. I felt it was very nice of him to include those mentions therein.

Art Thieme