Ebbie and all,

I figured there were folkies somewhere there. Great to know at this late date that our sojourn to Oregon was just a bit premature. We had dulcimers and hand-made fretless banjos--Pete Seeger records for sale as well as all kinds of hand-made folk art. Hattie Presnell from Beech Mountain in N. Carolina made all kinds of folk toys and whimmy-diddles, corn husk dolls and sun bonnets for the shop. Also Native American pipes from Pipestone, Minnesota and woven items from the Florida Seminoles. Alaska Native Arts And Crafts, a fine organization then (1967) provided carved walrus tusk art---whales and sea lions. The music we'd brought with us in the VW bus was always playing in the shop...
But the tourists running the coast highway 101 bought salt-water taffy and driftwood rather than our dulcimers and records. And, truth be known, we were more citified than I ever wanted to admit back then. I missed the noir and the cement of the big city folk scene. I'll always have a huge warm place in my heart for Oregon and the splendid coast vistas and getting up a 4:00 AM to get down below Cape Foulweather for a minus 2-foot tide where all the alien life forms you'd ever want to see were revealed in all their glory. -----------More o' dem good memories. This thread makes me want to dig out the slides I took back then. Think I will.

Art Thieme