This deserves to be refreshed.
The Family Folk Festival made very real, major changes in the folk scene that nobody seems to have noticed over the years. For instance, at the 1975 festival, there was a duo doing their first tour. They were/are cousins, a couple of librarians. They call themselves the Folktellers, and that tour, combined with the then-new National Storytelling Festival started the storytelling renaissance that's been blossoming ever since. That evening after the concert, I think it was in Bill's house, about a half dozen of us ended up squirreled away in the kitchen pantry telling stories, with the music and visiting swirling around us as a comfortable background. I found that I knew a lot more stories then I'd supposed, and gave me the courage to start performing at the open mike at my local coffeehouse. So both in my life and in the Big Picture, the Domler family have been more important than they've been given credit for.