“I’ve been sifting through the layers, of dusty books and faded papers……..” so go the lyrics of Kate Wolf’s Across the Great Divide (great song, but you will have to look it up-I can’t find a sharable copy online). Spring cleaning time, and I am going through stuff I haven’t looked at in years. The other day it was books, and the Library was the beneficiary of such an eclectic collection of books that even the bookworms were scratching their heads.
Today was T-shirt clean up day. Since I was in the radio business back in the 70s I had a great T-shirt coll
ection which was mostly liquidated 10 years ago. Its funny, though, how well a 35 year old t-shirt holds up.
I didn’t make it to the David Crosby Concert back in March of 1974, but I’ve got the t-shirt. Never monkey-wrenched a piece of heavy equipment or spiked a tree, but I’ve got the Earth First! t-shirt.
I did do some interviews with Memphis’ most successful wrestler, Jerry, the King, Lawler, during his short-lived singing career with Barbarian Records.
These are going to interested friends, and the rest (about 30) are going to MIFA. Of course I have a few left that you will have to check Ebay for the pictures.
It’s interesting what we choose to keep and what we choose to part with. I am not seeing much value these days in keeping things just to have them. I am looking forward to
continuing my deep cleaning. Next I am jumping to hundreds of vinyl albums.
