We missed you, Don! But I figured the weather forecast was the deciding factor.

I stopped taping the sessions when Tom lost his voice, but I have the song lists on j-cards for 2002-2009.

I'm not sure if I started posting what we sang in 2010 or the latter part of 2009. I've been working on beating the earlier lists into submission and some sort of consistency.

I'm not sure when exactly I started keeping records on who the "crew" was -- both singers and listeners.

The monthly session started in January 2003 and for the first year it was the second Saturday of the month. Then Tom realized that choice interfered with Indian Neck, Mystic, and other dates, so in January 2004 we started meeting on the third Saturday.

Jay Smith, the founder and original owner of The Press Room died in September 2002. That was the first year we had a Press Room open sing during the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival -- as a Jay Smith memorial singaround. Tom then decided to get the Press Room okay to have a monthly session starting right after the new year.

Linn