I remember Margaret as a fount of Vermont lore and music of incalculable depth. She was always friendly, remembered me whenever she saw me, and was generous with her materials. Whenever I heard her sing something (for example, in the informal "guerilla ballad sessions" at the Old Songs Festival), and I wanted it, she always sent me not only the words and the music, but a wealth of the history and social background that were the contexts of the song. In everything she did, the music and history and social lore and scholarship were so bound inextricably that it became a model for me; I too had a responsibility whenever appropriate to bundle the songs I sing with the extra materials that set them into place.

I can only wish her an easy exit, and a supply of grace to face her final journey with awareness of the context that she journeys there with the love of many who have known her.

--Charlie Baum