Niles Center, thanks for saying "I find myself convinced by the integrity of these notebooks after examining them over a period of 25 years. He would have had to be an extraordinary fraud to have created these notebooks from 1906 to the end of his life."

Thanks for saying that so well. I once checked out Niles' Ballad Book from my public library, and I was struck by the immediacy of it. Having worked outdoors, I could picture myself getting stuck in the mud on a country road, just as Niles seemed to do time after time.

It seems clear that many of the people posting here haven't even read any of Niles' books.