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I was thinking of making a post about this milestone, but it slipped my mind because of exhaustion. For the past few days, the Folk Legacy Trio has been in Safford, AZ performing a concert along with four outreach programs -- two for school kids, one for the Rotary Club, and one for seniors (probably younger than me!) at the Safford Library. To get there and return was an 8½ hour drive each way for Rick and me from Las Vegas. But after all these years, the desire to stand on a stage and perform is still there.

Here we are 45 years after the "Reunion Show," as we called it, and I have general and specific memories of it:
• rehearsals at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, which involved meeting Dave Guard for the first time; most notably, I sat cross-legged on the floor at their feet as they sang their first song for the first time in 21 years, "Zombie Jamboree."
• driving up to Magic Mountain (Roger, Bob and me) and stopping at a bar along the way. Although that itself wasn't unusual in those days, Bob's reason for doing it was strategic. Dave had made some last minute demands which were not a part of the agreement, and in order for the show to continue Bob gave in; however, Bob's tardiness to sound check the afternoon of the show made it clear to all who was really in charge and without whom the show wouldn't proceed or exist.
• a certain high-profile actress (name withheld) walking into my dressing room as I changed clothes, without knocking and without really noticing me. As I stood there with my pants in my hands I asked if I could help her, to which she responded simply "No." And that's how impressions are made.
• the joy of standing in the wings watching/listening to John Stewart and Lindsay Buckingham sing "Spinning Of The World" -- genius, sheer genius.
• how cold it was
• how genuine and kind Mary Travers was to me

That evening remains a wonderful memory in my musical history with many memories. Were I allowed to take only one memory forward, it would be that of Mary Travers.