Phil,
I'm with you on that. My condolences go out to Terri Byerly and Juel Ulven and ALL you people who made this the best summertime folk festival in Illinois! The setting, ISLAND PARK--on a beautiful island in the middle of the Fox River in Geneva, Illinois was and is truly an idyllic oasis! I'm sure the waters will recede and the next fest will be the best one ever.

By the way, Phil, my surgery went real well with no pain to speak of. I would've been at the festival after all! Other than a chunk of my right ear being deleted---sort of a lobe-otomy---I'm as good as new!! I knew, when the phone rang while I was ironing, that I shouldn't've answered it.--- (I never was real good at multitasking. ;-)

Art and Carol Thieme