Perhaps 20 years ago, I was asked to 'lead' Ewan & Peggy from suburban Maryland to downtown Wash.D.C. for a concert. We arrived early, and I had perhaps 30 minutes with them as they checked out the hall and did a sound check.
   I had gone thru my LP collection and found everything by them I had and brought along a stack of 8-9 records, which I asked if they would sign. They cheerfully did, and suggested other things I might like, including "The Long Harvest"...which I finally acquired on CD just last year! They were polite, open and friendly.

Since then I have met Peggy twice and she was as friendly as she could be in the hectic pace of post-concert. I took some digital pics of Peggy doing a house concert at the house she grew up in and gave her a CD of them at the recent concert of all 3 Seegers....a few weeks later, I got a very nice email thanking me.

I suspect, that, like most people, Ewan could be irritated at times, ...often, no doubt for good cause...and no doubt there ARE stories by folks who didn't like something about their meeting with Ewan, but I seem to see that he was usually polite, gracious and interested....and he WAS an incredibly talented and creative artist, no matter what some think of certain details of his life.