I am glad to find this thread on Antonia, though sorry to learn she is no longer with us.

In the recesses of my memory, I recall visiting Antonia once at her apartment. It probably was around 1989. Somehow I believe it was Mark Johnson who recommended I contact her, although I also met Peter Stampfel around that time and he might have been the one to put me in touch with her. I was 20 years old and a budding rock and roll historian. It seems to me that I simply looked up Antonia's number in the phone book, called her, mentioned our mutual friend or friends, and received the invitation to visit her.

I recall we chatted for a short while and she told me about how she and Peter ran the Lovin' Spoonful fan club. She also showed me her costume-jewelry collection, as I was crazy about vintage clothes and accessories. When I oohed and aahed over a particular necklace made of cubes of electric-blue lucite, she gave it to me. Her generosity amazed me, given that I was little more than a stranger.

Despite Antonia's kindness to me, I didn't contact her again, being very much on my own trip at that time. I regret that now. But it was a blessing to have met her at all.