HI - I came across this site searching for Appalachian Dulcimer players in NH>>>>I am originally from Wheeling, Wva where I bought my dulcimer from Dulcimer Maker Carl Bryant - I graduated with a degree in Appalchian Culture from WHeeling Jesuit COllege (now Univesity) I was invited to teach the Little Middle Folkschool to include the dulcimer at the John C. Campbell folkschool and have been teaching Dulcimer and the traditional appalachian music arts and crafts throughout the Eastern US for 50 years now.......I enjoy my time with other dulcimer players and musicians at coffee houses, festivals and just out on the front porch of friends and family-- My dad (BLess his soul) taught me to tap, clog, play bones, guitar, spoons, guitar and the jug ( I never did get the hang of the jug) I wanted to find other folks that I could join sometime and play - I just moved back to NH from Signal Mtn,.TN - Have been a current member if the Allied Arts in Chattanooga, Tn....SO I think that you are doing a great job trying to get a thread going - Do you have a newsletter of somekind???? Do you all get together at any time for a gathering?? My daughter on Signal Mountain has her own production co. and owns 80 acres on Cloudland, Ga. We decided to start a folkschool last year - so it is in progress ---- I am the director of it (The Folkschool on the Mountain)....then my daughter here in Dover, NH is having a family crisis and I am needed here//I will still be teaching where adn when I can...My car was vandalized at the High School in TEnn. where I was teaching a woodland sculpture program to Juniors and Seniors,,,,So - it is still in garage - Had to come here without it - I teach Arts in Education and the schools are close - so transportation is not too much of a problem right now....Anyway - I would like to be one of your threads in Traditional Mountain Music.....My dearest friend Hoss Williams was a Wva Balladeer and passed away within the year after playing and singing at the Grand Ole OPry - he did a tribute to Burl Eves who first recorded Go Tell Aunt RHody......I began to help him at the West Virginia Gas and Oil co. Festival when he had trouble playing so long with the arthritis in his hands....I also would see Alan Freeman, a dulcimer player at those festivals and Maddie McNeil was at the John C Campbell taking dulcimer lessons when I was teaching the Little MIddle Folkschool... I saw her 20 years later at a concert and she remembered me, but I could not remember where I had met her...She said she would print it in a dulcimer newsletter and for me to read it ---- I could not believe it was her....anyway -hope you will consider me a new thread........til later - never goodbye    Patricia Ann "Patches" Holmes - Traditional Appalachian, Heritage and Environmental folklife artisan.....Dover, NH   patchesholmes@live.com