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240 Acknowledgments Writer friends in Fairbanks carefully read selected chapters; my thanks to Jean Anderson, Burns Cooper, Kim Cornwall, Susheila Khera, John Kooistra, John Morgan, and Linda Schandelmeier . I am enormously grateful to Barbara Kingsolver for her careful reading of the entire manuscript, her words of encouragement and ‹ne advice. Thank you to other sharp readers of the book: Marie Boudreaux, Dixon Jones, Marion Avrilyn Jones, Paul Kowalski, and Pat Lambert. Thanks to Ellen Moore, as always, for her reading and her ideas. And thank you Sandra Boatwright for stepping forward at the right minute with a clear vision which saved the day. Everything I know about banjo lore and banjo playing, I learned from Fairbanks recording artist Robin Dale Ford, who is an amazing musician, teacher, singer, songwriter, storyteller, businesswoman, and good friend. Set in the years from 1955 to the early 70s, this book required considerable research with the help of Jeanie Williamson of the Noel Wien Library Van Delivery Service in Fairbanks. Interlibrary loans, especially on the history of minstrel shows in America, were indispensable. I thank Jeanie for these and other books and magazines that she provided in quantity and at the right time. Thanks also to the city clerk’s of‹ce in Mancelona, Michigan, for providing hard copies of newspapers back to the 1950s and to the staff of public libraries in Alden, Bellaire, Central Lake, Traverse City, and Mancelona, Michigan. Members of the extended family of Joseph A. and Mary Elizabeth Lambert in Northern Michigan have made me welcome in their home year after year since 1996 and shared without stinting all that they love about this beautiful landscape. Without their hospitality this book could not have been written. I thank them with all my heart. My sons, Henry and Desmond, could not know all that they do for me. Their encouragement is steady and indispensable, and their comments always right on. Thank you to my beloved husband, Pat Lambert , who carried so much of this one on his shoulders. ...