Art:

Thanks for the positive thoughts. And of course I agree with all you said about ballads/history. Old Put must have been quite a character - to be able to give the nasty _reality_ of the 49ers and keep it in such a comic format that "Sweet Betsy From Pike" can still be sung in very PC venues (that is the full song) today and people still laugh.

I still hope to return to Chicago one day.

but are you male or female?

:-) If one should look through my posts over the last 17 years (here, there & everywhere) one would find only a small handful of clues. I'm not sure of the reason... Perhaps because I'm clueless. Perhaps because I'm married. Of course, it's no secret.