David, please pass my love and good wishes on to Mary. (You can take some for yourself and Kathleen, too!)

David and Mary were my entree into the folk music scene in Portland in 1984, and I couldn't have had better guides and mentors. I don't know how they steeled themselves to sing alongside me, but I'm glad they did. The three of us sang together as "Small Craft" for two Folklife Festivals, and reunited 15 years later at Singtime Frolics. Actually, as I recall now, at one of those Folklifes Mary couldn't make it...Max was busy being born. (Meryle Korn stood in, admirably.)

If anybody is strong enough to recover from this, Mary is. I wish her all the best, and hope one day to her her again belting out "Poverty Knock" and "Sammy's Bar" and "The Red Velvet Steering Wheel Cover Driver" and "Fresh Water Whaling" and "The Fishermen's Song" and...

Aloha,
Mark