This came as a complete shock to me, I talked to Dale just a few days ago on the phone. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary in his speech or actions, and he didn't mention any problems.

He talked often about the performers he had met at the Ozark Folk Center and of the young people he had met and become friends with thru the years at the center. He often E-mailed me song clips and pictures and an occassional video of some of them.

We talked a bit about Hazel Dickens and Alice Foster, that night and he E-mailed me:

"The Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia",
by the Blugrass Brigade and also by Kathy Mattea.

I am also an "Arkie", from near the Arkansas/Oklahama border.

We have been net and phone pals for a long time..

So Long Dale, it was grand knowing you.

Gene