I met Meridel LeSueur once on the Mississippi River when I was singing on the steamboats. She was old and frail and in a wheel chair which means she was confined to the lower deck. Her personal presence was amazingly magnetic though. After my set of songs, she asked her companion to go get me. Sadly, I didn't know her background. Still, it came through that this was someone whose thoughts I ought to know about. A search engine provided me with all I now know about Maridel Le
sueur---and more. This was in the late 1980s. Like Joseph Cambpbell who I had dinner with at George and Gerry Armstrong's house, I didn't have the background in their work to talk intelligently to them. Today I would be able to converse.

Art Thieme