Bert Lloyd was a monumental figure, a giant in the folk revival world I came of age within. (Ewan as well) Strange revisions and historical takes on people are one of the things that rub me completely wrong about this time we are in. I'm afraid there is nothing to be done about it. More modern people, from whatever era, will always either ignore aspects of history or re-do history in the light of their own P.C. beliefs and/or religions. How better to explain the hundreds of Christian religions---or the divergent branches of Islamic thought---or the many ways one can be Jewish now. Once in a while the new take/spin is put forth to put out a new and better version of history---possibly because it actually might be a better, more factual, more accurate version. Many times it is for the money a new book or DVD or CD-Rom might generate. Especially after someone dies---the spate of new things to buy about a person is often simply a travesty of opportunistic promotions. Truth is served sometimes. But false truths that are put forth for ulterior, possibly selfish, motives are much too plentiful.

Pardon my excess verbage, but where A.L. Bert Lloyd is concerned, minimizing his many contributions is way off the mark.

But good and bad things will survive in this world. George Bush may go down in history as greater than either Washington or Lincoln. Thomas Jefferson might become a devil in peoples' eyes because he fathered an out of wedlock child whose mother was a slave. Older people will decry the changes taking place, and try to hold on to the things they think are valuable. --- This will often have little to do with what is good or bad, right or wrong, moral or immoral.

As my brother, Richard, says in a recent cyber column he wrote (called Islands In The Clickstream if you want to search for it)---and I paraphrase---The new takes over from the old slowly -- "one death at a time!"

Art Thieme