Don and Bob-

Good job in making this grim period real, and even fun. It's the joy of singing that sustained a lot of people in this period, even if they were looking over their shoulders for the FBI infiltrators.

My grandparents were both well known modern artists in the 1930's, based in Greenwich Village. There was always someone circulating a "human rights" petition at neighborhood special events. When the hearings began in the late 1940's some of the "establishment artists" accused my grandfather of being a Communist. At one point he was almost deported to Lithuania, a country his family immigrated from when he was two years old. In the 1950's a major mural by my grandfather for a Texas bank was derailed by the accusations, although he ultimately won full payment in court and donated the completed mural to a liberal arts college. Well, my grandparents' art careers still flourished and I'm extremely proud of them for holding up under all that pressure.

Unfortunately, many other people saw their careers irrevocably ruined, leading to divorce and even suicide.

Charley Noble