Old Amigo "Jeff" from Austin has been there twice, and reports that it's been the high point of his life both times. I'm a little envious, but Texas is a long haul from Maine!

Jeff is a talented writer as well as Musician, and his accounts of the festival are most colorful and evocative.
I encouraged him to post about it here on the Mudcat the first year, which he did - and the thread promptly sank like a rock and I don't know if anybody actually posted to it, so I'm not at all surprised that he didn't seem to bother to try it again this time. I actually checked this thread thinking that it might be him trying again. Perhaps you met at one of the events or song-circles he described - who knows?