Fletcher Collins, collector of traditional songs, lives in Staunton (Stan-ton), and has produced folk festivals at his Oak Grove Theater for many years. He's in his quite vigorous 80s, and a wonderful man. Also living there and still singing nicely, is Jeannie Lee, who wrote one of the songs I recorded on an album back in 1966 or so, a modification of the older "Goin' Where the Chilly Winds Don't Blow." Very talented 16-year-old when she made the song and taught it to Paul Clayton, from whom I learned it. Staunton is certainly a lovely town, and I'd be happy to live in or near it, but I once spent a miserable night there, trying to get to sleep in a rat-trap of a cheap motel that reeked of bad plumbing. My next visit, I was a guest of Fletcher Collins and his wife in their beautiful brick home. Give them a call and tell them I said hello. They are wonderfully good folks. (My last name is pronounced PAYTON, by the way.)

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