The Middletown festival was one of the first festivals I went to on the east coast of the USA after leaving Kansas...(and I was only there one time,,,did the 'sleeping on the floor' bit..(Wally MacNow of Camsco music slept in the corner opposite me). I met Maggie Pierce there...*grin*..it was easy...I was standing by a tree and she *whooshed* up behind me and took my arm, saying that she was having a workshop in 10 minutes, and didn't I want to come to it? Well, I sort of allowed myself to be escorted along ...and was delighted. (Alistair Anderson was there that year, too...not a bad introduction to concertinas for a boy from Kansas)

But my REAL memory was the guy who sold records from a big van with shelves! I was record hungry in those days, and he had EVERYTHING...Leader & Trailer, Folk-Legacy...stuff I had never heard of...I started picking...and the pile grew larger...and he went & got me a box...then a 2nd box..and as I picked more, he lowered the price per record, so I counted my cash and picked some more!! I think I ended up getting 30-35 records at a bit over $4 each! And I even sold one for him when someone asked if he knew of a recording of a certain song, I mentioned it was on the Sara Grey w/Ed Trickett Folk-Legacy disc..!!Boy, did I increase my knowlege & music database that year! (1978, I guess)