I discoverd a thrilling bit of family history recently. Steve Green (Maine Folklife Center) sent me a taped interview he had with my mother, Elizabeth Flanders Ballard, in 1982. Mother had worked with HHF for a number of years, mostly transcribing the ballad tunes. She had never talked about this with us kids and we forgot to be curious. During this interview she confides that she only collected one ballad on her own. She was picking up a singer and bringing him by car to where Granny was waiting with some other people. In the car, the man and Mother talked. Then he sang. He sang The Gypsy Daisy. Of course, she told Granny about it. Granny is listed as collector in the books. This explains why The Gypsy Daisy tune was so familiar to me when I heard it years later. It was one of the songs I grew up on. Anyone else out there interview my mother about Helen Hartness Flanders? News comes from the most unlikely sources!