One thing I did not mention back on the first page of my "Life-of" was my regular visits to Union Grove Fiddler's Convention in Union Grove, North Carolina in the late Sixties, early and mid Seventies. These were presented by the VanHoy Brothers. I picture of me playing a Jew's/Jaw Harp at the Fiddler's Convention appeared in the Winston-Salem Journal and Sunday Sentinel and Rolling Stone No. 87 of July 22, 1971. The one with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull on the cover.

In 1978 or so I went for the last time to the Convention and took my Wife, Leona and Sibyl, the traveling cat. unfortunately on the way home we lost Sibyl. It was devastating to me at the time. However, while at the Convention , the biggest one to date with 200,00 attending in a new Million Dollar pavilion that had been built to replace the circus tents they had been using, I discovered that a full page picture of me dancing solo on stage had appeared in their Fiftieth Anniversary Year book "Union Grove - The First Fifty Years". They did not know my name, so it is not mentioned. But the picture is unmistakably me. Don Dancing to Cripple Creek. It also transpires that a Clogging Group had been started up by some people inspired by my dancing, even tough the dancing I did was decidedly not Clogging!

My fondest memory of the early days of going to the Convention was dancing late into the night around campfires to the like of George Pegram, Rounders Record #0001 whose picture also appeared in that same Rolling Stone article!