Kendall and Deckman On The Air?

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:24 PM

hooray..thanks Stew for making this available for us to listen to at our own convenience!!

I am listening now, and recall posting some info on the community Oleanna, in a book review I posted on mudcat about Ole Bull. http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=117859&messages=8
I did not know there was a song about it...

Great to hear Kendall's stories, and Bob's, too!!

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Deckman
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:31 PM

Bruce ... did he die at peace or in pieces ... NEVER MIND! bob

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:32 PM

Jeez, I feel overlooked! I joined the Coast Guard in 1953 and I don't believe I had to sign any oath. I went to work for the US Fish & Wildlife service in 1962 and had to pass a background check, but again, no oath. I must have looked like establishment to them.

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:00 PM

You recall the days ya had to take an oath to join the Musicians' Union?

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:26 PM

Washington State (used to be referred to—and some folks still do—as "the Soviet of Washington") was the scene of a lot of Wobbly (IWW) activity during the first few decades of the 20th century. In Centralia, WA, on 1919, the Centralia Legionnaires attacked and burned the Centralia IWW hall, setting it on fire and killing everyone they found inside. Before that, in 1916, there was the "Everett Massacre," where a group of Wobblies were met on the Everett waterfront and slaughtered (Bob currently lives in Everett).

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, we had the Canwell Committee locally, concurrent with and sharing the values of the House Un-American Activities Committee, so people around here were constantly being investigated up the ziggy. Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger used to make regular visits in the early 1940s to sing for some of the same organizations that Bob sang for—and the term "hootenanny" in relation to a folk singers' jam session was invented in Seattle and carried back to New York by Seeger (he notes this in his "The Incompleat Folksinger").

In the early 1950s, if you bought a copy of "A Treasury of Folk Songs" edited by John and Sylvia Kolb (Bantam Books, 35¢) off your local drugstore paperback rack, somebody was liable to start surreptitiously following you.

As Bob mentioned in the interview, I also had a couple of representatives from the Fat Boys Institute knocking on my door and asking me to keep an eye out on their behalf (I figure they must have had me pegged as relatively innocuous, otherwise they wouldn't have asked me). But that's another story and too long to go into here.

Fun times!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Deckman
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:36 PM

HEY DON .... sssshhhh ... peak out your living room window just to the South ... look at at guy in the crewcut ... I just saw him going through your garbage can ... again! bob(sssshhhhh)

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:37 PM

You guys are in DEEP DEEP doodoo. DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:09 PM

Yeah, old crew cut is back. I saw him. He crawled back out of the garbage can with nothing to show for his efforts but coffee grounds in his ears, egg shells in his hair, and orange peelings in his pockets.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:12 PM

What a friend we had in Hoover
He was freedom's truest friend....

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: maeve
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:54 PM

This is a great series of interviews you've put together, Rapaire. I'm only sorry I can't access any of them. It sounds like they are very interesting. Congratulations to all who were involved!

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 12:14 AM

Most enjoyable! Thank you Rap, Kendall, Bob, Kath Ann, Anne, and thank you Stewart.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: kendall
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 07:00 AM

If I could figure out how to record those interviews I would send you a cd, maeve.

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: maeve
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 07:42 AM

Thanks, Kendall. I'll hear it someday.

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 09:15 AM

The CDs, including some for interviews yet to come, were delivered to me yesterday. They'll be sent out ASAP to the Appropriate People (e.g., TSA, Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, etc.).

ALSO, they will as some point be available on the Library's website as streaming audio. Someday...soon...I hope.

Some folks were working on are Wallace Macrae, Wiley Gustafson, Jerry Pournelle, Greg Bear, and (I hope) Tom Paxton and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Deckman
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 09:35 AM

Thanks muchly Mike. Bob

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 02:25 PM

Outrageous! Rap, do you have any idea when the interview with Jerry Pournelle will be?

Back in the late Fifties and early Sixties, he and I used to guzzle tall-and-foamies in Seattle's infamous Blue Moon Tavern, argue politics, and generally save the world. He enjoyed folk music and came to the hoots pretty often. This was before he left for California. At the time, I didn't even know he was interested in writing! Then his science fiction stories and novels started to appear, much to my amazement.

The last time I saw him was in 1985(?), when he and Larry Niven came to Seattle on a book tour and were autographing copies of Footfall at a local book store. Barbara was with me, and he introduced us to Larry Niven, then asked us to join them for dinner. He said a couple of friends would be along shortly and we'd all go to Ivar's Salmon House. It turned out the two friends were local SF writer, Mildred Downey Broxon (Too Long a Sacrifice)—and Frank Herbert, who had just return from Hollywood from trying to ride herd on the shooting script for Dune.

That was quite an evening! I've got some great stories that grew out of that evening, but that's matter for another thread. I've drifted this one too much already.

'Twould be good to hear Jerry's voice again.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Kendall and Deckman On The Air?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 02:39 PM

Oh, yeah, and Spider Robinson.