Eliza,

Have you seen Scott Alarik's book called DEEP COMMUNITY yet? One of the chapters is an article he did on you for the Boston Globe---. That book mentions "the folk police" in several places. Interesting. There is an article in there that Scott wrote back in '86 about my winding up doing records for Folk Legacy and Sandy Paton. But leafing through that book I can see how very much this folk scene differs from the one I knew and was part of 40 years ago. That kind of morphing and change can leave some of us older folkies wondering why what we cared about so much is overlooked so easily by modern folkies. Trying to hold onto what we found to be of value maybe makes us seem to don the garb of folk police.

Does you dad and mother ever feel sprt of passed by on occasion?? It would be good to hear Martin's take on all this, but I doubt he'd care to get into this banter. There is no real point to it---except to vent ones frustrations.

All the best,

Art Thieme