I do wish I had known of you people in 1967 when I started my FOLK-ART SHOP in Depoe Bay, Oregon. Back then we couldn't find any interest in folk music anywhere in Portland or on the coast and environs. We might've looked further north if we had realized you were there---=- and possibly I'd never have left the Pacific Northwest and returned to Chicago where I perceived that being in a folk scene was, at least, a possibility of sorts. I did love the coast and was very much into low tide exploration and marine biology.

You started in 1953!!?? Pretty amazing!

Such is life.

Art Thieme