I got to know Juel, just a little bit, through the Fox Valley Festival while I was living in Illinois, and helped a friend host a chantey sing there. But during the pandemic, I got to know him better through the monthly online chantey sings… He was always friendly, warm, welcoming, and supportive, and he had so many great stories from the folk scene and his Navy career. I really thought he would pull through this; I still have on my desktop the screen-shot from the last Zoom chantey sing that we sent him, which he said cheered him up. This is a great loss.