-
Acknowledgments
- Indiana University Press
- Chapter
- Additional Information
— xi — ACKNOWLEDGMENTS On its way to publication, this manuscript has received much benefit from the comments and support of thoughtful and astute readers. I am grateful to those who took time to critique all or parts of the book: Dillon Bustin, Joyce Cauthen, Eloise Clark, Pat Gingrich, Frank Hall, Jim Johnson, Tamara Loewenthal, John McDowell, Ron Pen, and David Schloss. Others generously provided photos for the book: Bill Baus, Dillon Bustin, Min Gates, Ted Hall, Brian “Hawk” Hubbard, Teri Klassen, Laura Ley, Gary Stanton, and Dan Willens. Dudley Laufman granted permission to use his poem “Supposing you were someone else,” from A Dancing Master’s Diary (1981). Dudley’s poetry and other writings can be found at his website, http://www.laufman.org. Dee Mortensen of Indiana University Press brought to the book her wisdom both as editor and also as old-time musician and participant in the Bloomington music and dance community. Countless others have offered counsel in passing, and their names are omitted only with injustice. I am grateful to all those in the community, whose memories I savor here with such fondness. What you taught me has remained with me as a beacon of wisdom, inspiration, and hope. — xii — Acknowledgments My parents, Ann and Rufus Bealle, have genuinely appreciated all that the music and dance community has brought to me and to others, and they are surely pleased that the long trek this manuscript has taken is finally at an end. I am grateful to Eloise Clark, my partner, for the pleasure we share as fellow travelers in old-time music and dance. At her side these ideas sprouted, and they have been nurtured to fruition with her curiosity, appreciation, support, and encouragement. My daughter Josie, now age eleven, is only vaguely aware of what all this means: it is partly my hope to give her, and the children of all those mentioned here, a clue to why we live our lives the way we do. ...