Where to start? Joan Baez at the Brookline Public Library in 1960, shortly after her first appearance at Newport. The Young Tradition in a radio studio at MIT. The rainstorms at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and at Fox Hollow. The gazebo at Fox Hollow. Organizing a concert in St. Louis for the Portable Folk Festival. Convincing the Coast Guard to participate in the New York harbor welcome for the Hudson River Sloop.

The Dylan riot at Mariposa in 1972. The young ballad singer at Mountain View in 1971 who made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Peter Johnson's concerts in Cambridge and Izzy Young's in New York. The Shady Oak at Sweets Mill. Singing all night with "The Animals" at the early Northwest Folklife Festivals. Visiting Yosemite with Frankie Armstrong and Brian Pearson. Getting thrown out of the first Vancouver Folk Music Festival.

And the parties. At Bert and Judy Haynes' house in Philadelphia. At Bill and Janet Boyer's place outside St. Louis. At the Monroe Center in Seattle. And in that awful motel in Toronto where everybody at Mariposa stayed.

That's just a few. Was anybody else reading this at any of those places or events?