Geez, & I thought I was the only person crazy enough to make a slicker for my hat. When at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS last Sept. I made a slicker for my straw hat with a garbage bag & duct tape for quite practical reasons. It kept the rain off of my head & my spectacles, and kept my straw hat from becoming soggy. (Wow, new name for an all gal bluegrass band: The Soggy Hatted Galz!) Everywhere I went, people complimented me on my "rain hat." Too bad the brim was not wide enough to protect the finish on my old Gibson! I fear it got a bit soggy during the mists of the wee hours jams. Too hard to play the old gee-tar when it's duct-taped inside a garbage bag (rural dwelling personage gee-tar case)!
    By the by, that's there I was, at the WVF in Winfield, Kansas during 9-11. While it was a subdued fest, I was quite thankful to be there, among all those fellow musicians & performers, instead of the "regular" world. Now, every year, we will always remember.