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Thread #94330   Message #3900519
Posted By: GUEST,Carla Sciaky
19-Jan-18 - 01:03 PM
Thread Name: Margot Mayo - biographic (square dance, et al.)
Subject: RE: Margot Mayo - biographic (square dance, et al.)
My mother, Barbara Altstadt, and her older sister Judith, danced and sang under Margo's tutelage at the ASDG, and I believe they were also on a weekly radio program on WNYC? All of this would have been in the early 1940s. Does anyone know more about the recordings of the radio program? My mother is now suffering from growing dementia, and I would love to reconnect her to those songs and the sound of Margo's voice on that radio show. My mother speaks of those days as magical.

She met my father, Peter Sciaky, when Margo recommended her as a camp counselor for a new summer camp run by my grandparents, Frances and Leon Sciaky, called High Peak. It is long gone, sold in 1955, but was situation right next to the Catskill Game Farm.

So my mother's association with Margo is the reason I came into the world! And it led me to be a folksinger with my own career.