"Most of them had paid jobs and families to look after and their time was limited."
As was our own situation by the way
One of the saddest and most disgraceful ommissionions to British folk scholarship is its almost total lack of full-time researchers and collectors
What a difference that would have made if it had not been the case
I remember hearing of a very fine University-based folk-studies course being closed down because them in charge believed them to be "a bunch of tree-huggers"
Jim Carroll