Murray

Thanks for the welcoming words re current work. I'm aiming to make it a book. My father sang, but his passion was the social conditions of the group of his origin. I'm glad "Cotton Mill Girls" has stuff in it for you.

Phila's a good place; & it's the gentler place in the States for classical string study. It's hard to miss the DePasquale family here. They weren't small to start, and they kept growing. My daughter went to middle & high school will Bill & Gloria's son. Don't know Geoffery Michaels. Talitha studied/studies with Yumi Scott & Syd Curtiss (both also of the POrch & Curtis) & Yayoi Numazawa.

Did you study at Penn in the days Kenny Goldstein was there? Last year the folklore dept got absorbed into the English dept. Therefore Roger Abrahams is now in the Eng dept. Sounds like the prospects for young folklorists has shrunk.

Daughter's phoning. Farewell. Hedy