Genie ... I appreciate your feeling that it's "such a shame," but let me gently put another persepctive on this. John was a HUGE collector of stuff: folk stuff, RR stuff, general music stuff, books and books and books, things apple, things electronic, things electric, anything relating to radio, on and on and on.

I thought it was quite remarkable that so much of the top quality "folk stuff (tapes, records and books) was saved. Beyond that, my energies, and others, were simply expended. When all the was accomplished, all that was left was stuff, more stuff, and even more stuff!

At some point, someone has to say, enough is enough. Bob(deckman)Nelson