When Max first began collecting songs, it was for his own pleasure in learning and singing them. He would fill up a tape, learn the songs, and erase the tape so he could use it again. When Mary Celestia Parler found that out, she hit the ceiling. "Don't do that! Save those tapes," she implored, and offered to provide Max with blank tapes to use on further collecting trips. Max was a fine singer, by my lights, and strummed a very rudimentary, but adequate (for me) guitar accompaniment.

I think I told the story of his collecting guns in the thread that was started when he died last fall.

Sandy