I got my copy of Windjammers yesterday. I was amazed to hear such a large contingent of Beaver Islanders on the disc. What a scream to hear grandpa Dominick on cut 2! And John W. He was a great-uncle or something and great fun, and when the older kids were little they loved to go play at his house on Beaver Harbor in the summers. Whenever my mom heard about that she would run to retrieve them. He drank to excess, and Mom's worst malediction was 'you'll wind up just like John-W!'   How cool that the old gent's faculty for remembering songs (if not performing them too splendidly) has put him in print for the ages.

Neat to hear all the other voices, too, even Walton's, richer than I thought it would be. And who's the mysterious Ed Vandenberg, apparently a performer rather than a source, who does the last 2 cuts?

Anybody know this Joe Grimm guy or the teacher Thelma James whose bequest apparently made this book possible? I'm so glad that at least some of this stuff is finally beginning to get out from under the lock and key it has been under. THANKS Thelma wherever you are!