Much Ado about Nothing
                  —Wm. Shakespeare

Yes, Mudcat (a fish indigenous to the lower Mississippi River, and very good eating I'm told—quite appropriate for the website because it was originally started as a blues music site) is based in Pennsylvania, but within recent years it has had contributors from the United Kingdom, Germany, Iceland, Australia, Japan, and I don't know where all else.

The physical equipment necessary to run Mudcat is in the U. S. But it's essentially an international site.

My great-grandfather on my father's side came from Scotland (actually, the Orkneys, I'm told) and my grandparents on my mother's side came from Sweden. And I live way out here on the West Coast of the U. S. But Mudcat, to all intents and purposes, is as close as my computer, which is right here in front of me.

Let us not be hypersensitively nationalistic.

Don Firth