I agree with Stew that the panel discussion was a success. I felt honored to be part of that group, just as Nancy also mentioned. What good company. I just added all the ages of the panel members together and I hit 350 years! Take a few years away for childhoods, jail time, time spent out the country, time spent running from the law, etc., that's still quite a large number of years of experiences that that was on stage.

And we did cover the years from 1939 up to the present. I think several people were surprised to realize that there really was a LOT of folk music happenning in the Seattle area long before the Kingston Trio and Joan Baez.

So Stew, you succeeded in dragging me down to the "Seattle Forklift Festival" yet again. I hope that you give it up next year and concentrate on a younger generation ... after all ... just how many walkers and wheechairs can fit into the room! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson