Jean--

I am overawed at getting a reply from you. I taped (reel to reel back then) "Blue Diamond Mine" on the radio back around 1960 or so, & it's still very high on my personal list of favorites. I've pulled a group together to do trad and trad-sounding stuff and that has become one of everybody's favorites. I'm looking for that book--thought I had it, but got the other one, "Dulcimer People," which I'm studying now. May I presume to ask two sort-of personal questions? First, what can you tell me about BDM as far as why you chose to do it, etc., or if you have any personal memories about that song, and second, what part of the country are you in now?? I'm not after an address; I would just like to put some of these e-people I'm starting to e-talk with into some kind of context. Thanks.

"Chicken Charlie"