All good suggestions Leej. I think the 9-11 threads ran pretty well and the communication was a help to a lot of us from the very beginning. Rick's threads have been wonderful and I've enjoyed participating as many others have too. The "Drinking Gourd" was a classic piece of work and one I enjoyed reading, wholly giving it to all of you who were so brilliant.

I think a couple of the threads about "The Way It Was" which were authored in the main by Bob Nelson (Deckman) and Don Firth were absolute wonders and the very best of what can be learned and preserved here at the 'Cat. As they talked of one old folkie, it would lead to another and the surrounding tales.......So great that a number of us kept saying, "More, More!!" and it was the first threads I would check as they ran.

One other that was unique and fun was a thread regarding a Jean Ritchie song. Jean said she had learned it from her sister but felt that her sister put a tune to someone's words and she never knew where the words had come from. What made this odd was that we had the only artist to ever record the song and to be closely associated with it as completely in the dark as the rest of us......so much for going to the source! Jean probed her every remembrance and we were going to libraries and doing deep web searches.....and we found it! Mudcat at it's scholarly best.

Spaw