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<A HREF="cds.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CD Collection">Bud & Travis albums on CD</A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="cds.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CD Collection"><IMG SRC="159dbc360.jpg" border=0 width="700" height="310" ALT="All Bud & Travis albums on CD" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <div> For the most recent version of the official Travis Edmonson website</div> <div> including music clips, go to <A HREF="http://www.travisedmonson.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.travisedmonson.com">www.travisedmonson.com</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Recollections & Comments 1</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="329" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 216 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="116fc8d00.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2187 WIDTH="323"><bR> <div> Heartwarming and charming Comments about and Recollections of Travis Edmonson sent in to the website during the last six years of his life</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 1">1</A>      <A HREF="comments2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 2">2</A>      <A HREF="comments3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 3">3 </A>     <A HREF="comments4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 4">4</A>      <A HREF="comments5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 5">5</A></div> <div> <A HREF="comments6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 6">6</A>      <A HREF="comments7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 7">7</A>      <A HREF="comments8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 8">8</A>      <A HREF="comments9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 9">9</A>     <A HREF="comments10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 10">10</A></div> <div> <A HREF="comments11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 11">11</A>   <A HREF="comments12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 12">12</A>    <A HREF="comments13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 13">13</A>    <A HREF="comments14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 14">14</A>   <A HREF="comments15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 15">15</A></div> <div> <A HREF="comments16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 16">16</A>   <A HREF="comments17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 17">17</A>    <A HREF="comments18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 18">18</A>   <A HREF="comments19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 19">19</A>    <A HREF="comments20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 20">20</A></div> <div> <A HREF="comments21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 21">21</A>   <A HREF="comments22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 22">22</A>    <A HREF="comments23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 23">23</A>   <A HREF="comments24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 24">24</A>    <A HREF="comments25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 25">25</A></div> <div> <A HREF="comments26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 26">26</A>   <A HREF="comments27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 27">27</A>    <A HREF="comments28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 28">28</A>   <A HREF="comments29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 29">29</A>    <A HREF="comments30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 30">30</A></div> <bR> <div> Travis Edmonson in Memoriam - the touching tributes which poured in after his passing on May 9, 2009</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="memoriam1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Travis Edmonson In Memoriam">1</A>    <A HREF="memoriam2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In Memoriam 2">2</A>    <A HREF="memoriam3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In Memoriam 3">3</A>    <A HREF="memoriam4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In Memoriam 4">4</A>    <A HREF="memoriam5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In Memoriam 5">5</A></div> <div> <A HREF="memoriam6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In Memoriam 6">6</A>    <A HREF="memoriam7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In Memoriam 7">7</A>    <A HREF="memoriam8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In Memoriam 8">8</A>    <A HREF="memoriam9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In Memoriam 9">9</A></div> <bR> <div> Travis saluted in May 2008 on the occasion of a concert held in his honor</div> <bR> <div>   <A HREF="may08concert.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Travis Honored">1</A>     <A HREF="congrats2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="More Accolades for Travis Edmonson">2</A>     <A HREF="congrats3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="May 9, 2008 Accolades 3">3</A>     <A HREF="congrats_4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Congratulations to Travis 4">4</A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="db5c8ab0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="171" ALT="Enrico Banducci's hungry i lives again at www.hungryi.net" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Travis Edmonson made his breakthrough with The Gateway Singers, resident group at the hungry i</div> <bR> <div> Be sure and check out the website celebrating the great San Francisco club at <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.hungryi.net" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.hungryi.net"><U>www.hungryi.net</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.l23.org" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.l23.org"><U><IMG SRC="159bc8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <U>More of the best of 1960s entertainment Click the logo to check out - 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Love the music of Bud & Travis?  then you're sure to enjoy the fabulous STREET MINSTRELS.</div> <bR> <div> If you're in Arizona, you can experience their music live, and even have them perform at an event you're arranging.  But music lovers all over the US and beyond can experience the great STREET MINSTRELS sound on CD.  Just go to <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.streetminstrels.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.streetminstrels.com"><U>www.streetminstrels.com</U></A></FONT> to hear them and get ordering info!</div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 44 WIDTH="323"><bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="323"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="23" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="323" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="197" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 8683 WIDTH="191"><bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="cds.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CD Collection"><B>B&T CDs</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 1"><B>MEMORIES</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.quiq.org/music" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.quiq.org/music"><B>MUSIC</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.quiq.org/bio.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.quiq.org/bio.htm"><B>BIOGRAPHY</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://quiq.org/features.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://quiq.org/features.htm"><B>FEATURES</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://quiq.org/links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://quiq.org/links.htm"><B>Links</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://quiq.org/links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://quiq.org/links.htm"><B>NEWS</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="memoriam1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Travis Edmonson In Memoriam"><B>MEMORIAM</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Official Website for Travis Edmonson of "><B>HOME</B></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> During the second go-round of Bud & Travis, JAN MATTHEWS served as personal manager for Travis Edmonson, and recalls the experience with great warmth.</div> <bR> <div> “I never remember seeing Travis when he didn't have a pen, pencil or guitar in hand.  He was always composing and writing.  Beautiful poetry.  Tons of it.</div> <bR> <div> On stage, he had the ability to put each and every member of the audience in touch with him.  It was absolutely remarkable!</div> <bR> <div> He is a beautiful, sensitive person, and in all the years I knew him, I never <I>ever</I> heard him make a negative remark about anyone.  A wonderful man.”</div> <bR> <div> Jan Matthews</div> <div> May 2004</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Travis Edmonson's open-heartedness to enthusiastic young fans is a legend in itself.  Even after an exhausting show, there was always time, not just to sign an autograph, but to chat and even give an impromptu guitar lesson in a backstage corridor.</div> <bR> <div> PERRY BAKER has a story that even tops such encounters.</div> <bR> <div> “Growing up In Tucson, Arizona, in the 60's, Travis Edmonson was like a God to me. The very first concert I ever attended was Bud and Travis at the U of A auditorium; I was 14. Bought the double live album, memorized every song. Bought all the other albums, memorized them all. </div> <bR> <div> There was a coffee house on north Stone Avenue, called the First Step. 40 years ago they once featured B & T for two nights when I was 15. </div> <bR> <div> My girlfriend could not attend a Sunday night show, so I asked them if they would sing her a song over the telephone. They agreed. I still have a very beat up photo of them singing into the phone I am holding, crammed into the tiny box office.  Bonsoir Dame was the song. I still know the words.</div> <bR> <div> Travis and I chatted about this tale  at John Stewart's and Nick Reynolds' Fantasy Camp last summer, and he actually remembered the story and some of the details, like the address of this little club --they only played their once--etc. We laughed and thought it was a funny and fun story.”</div> <bR> <div> Perry Baker</div> <div> October 2003</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> GLENN PETERSEN in New York particularly cherishes Naturally and the Bud and Travis `debut' album.</div> <bR> <div> ” I still have and still occasionally listen to four B&T LPs I bought in Santa Barbara in 1963/64, where I also saw Travis perform. This music truly shaped not only my aesthetic sensibility, but also had a very big impact on the course of my life.  I've gone several times over the years to “Most Happy Fella” at the New York City Opera just to hear "Joey" in its original setting. I can't begin to express my appreciation for Travis Edmonson's music.”</div> <bR> <div> Glenn Petersen</div> <div> March 2007</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> LISA FARENTINO has a story about Travis Edmonson's generosity of  spirit, and tells of a private concert she enjoyed as a small child.</div> <bR> <div> “My grandparents were involved on the folk scene in Los Angeles.  When he died, my grandfather had a big funeral.  Apparently Everyone was there.  But afterwards, my grandmother was all alone, and almost no one came to visit her.  Only Travis Edmonson.  He used to stop by frequently, and the rest of her life ,she always spoke of his thoughtfulness, and how much it meant to her.</div> <bR> <div> I remember, once my mother and I were there  with her when he made a visit.  I was only four or five at the time, and to me, he seemed like a fairy tale prince in sandals.  So tall.  He played his guitar and sang for us.  I'll always remember it."</div> <bR> <div> Lisa Farentino</div> <div> July 2004</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The great composer and folk singer ERNIE SHELDON, who sang with The Limeliters in addition to his work in music for large and small screen, recalls Travis Edmonson from the days they sang together in The Gateway Singers.</div> <bR> <div> “I loved working with Travis, hearing him sing and play every night at the hungry  i. I  learned so much from the songs he sang, the way he played them and the quality of his performance.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="15b12c5c0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="348" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Travis Edmonson and Ernie Sheldon in 1958</div> <div> as part of The Gateway Singers</div> <bR> <div> And it was always amazing to see him eat steak - well done (or cremated as he used to say) and covered with sauce that burned like fire.  I have never forgotten his enthusiasm and spirit.”</div> <bR> <div> Ernie Sheldon</div> <div> May 2006</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Though it's been a quarter century since they last met, entertainer BARBARA McKINNEY's recollection of her friendship with and admiration for Travis Edmonson typifies the long-lasting impact he had on people.</div> <bR> <div> “I had the pleasure of knowing and loving Travis for many years... With my performing partner, Pat Horine, I met Travis in Atlanta in 1967 when he was trying out a partnership with Bob Shane at our club "Pat & Barbara's" (we alternated sets with them and that was one of the thrills of my young life.  Travis introduced me to his friend, Whitt McKinney, whom I later married.... </div> <bR> <div> Travis was my dear friend, and I've loved and prayed for him all his life. It's wonderful to be able to find his music online. I don't find it in the music stores in Georgia...although I was able to order one CD.  I have the vinyl disc of the Santa Monica concert and it is a treasure to me. To know him was to love him.”</div> <bR> <div> Barbara King McKinney</div> <div> February 2006</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Animal charity organizer SANDY DAVIS recalls a meeting with Travis Edmonson in the sixties.</div> <bR> <div> "I stumbled onto travisedmonson.com while reading about an old friend of  mine ... Stan Wilson. My high school friend, MaryLou Green, got me involved in the Coffee House scene and we were both waiting tables at the Garrett and the Unicorn. We worked at Petersen  Publishing Company during the day and by night we put on our black tights and hit the Coffee Houses.</div> <bR> <div> In 1961 at The Unicorn on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, CA. I was a 20 year old Coffee House waitress. I was also working at  The Garrett Coffee House on Fairfax. The Garrett was owned by Terrea Lee ... who also performed there.</div> <bR> <div> I was a kid in love with Folk Music and the  whole scene. I had the privilege of waiting tables when Travis & Bud performed at The Unicorn. I remember one night after a show, walking down Sunset Blvd. with Travis ...we stopped for coffee and pie at a place on the strip. I can picture the place, but the name isn't there at the moment.</div> <bR> <div> Travis told me that he had just moved into an apartment  complex right on the corner of Fountain and Crescent Heights. We walked back to the Unicorn ... it was a highlight & later a memory for me.</div> <bR> <div> One night when Travis & Bud were on stage performing, Randy Sparks and his wife came in to see the show. It was always a full house, and there was always something going on after closing time.</div> <bR> <div> I loved the song, "Carmen Carmella" .. and many a night with a glass of wine in my hand and the record turning around, I would go into that world and think about whatever 20 or 21 year olds think about ...  I just knew there  was the greatest story behind those beautiful lyrics. The words would remain in my head, and during those early times in my life, I would suffer along listening to it over and over. That record was  filled with scratches from playing again and again.</div> <bR> <div> I would not trade those days for anything  …  looking back it was all so exciting. I thought it would go on forever .... but of course, it didn't. </div> <bR> <div> Thank you, Travis,  for sharing your talents ... for all the songs  ... with such feeling ...</div> <bR> <div> With so much respect and admiration.”</div> <bR> <div> Sondra Davis</div> <div> January 2007</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Former Latin American correspondent MARTIN HOUSEMAN relates a great tale from the University of Arizona days.</div> <bR> <div> "I attended the University of Arizona when Travis did, in the early 1950s.</div> <bR> <div> One night, some other guys and I were in a panel truck driving across campus when we saw the feared and hated campus policeman, Frank Frye, chasing somebody and shouting, "Stop, or I'll shoot your goddamn legs off!"</div> <bR> <div> It wasn't unusual for Frank Frye to chase people and shout threats, but this time he had his old .44 sixshooter in his hand like he really meant business. As we neared the Cherry Street exit from campus, one of the guys spotted two people running through the campus cactus garden. "Hey," he said, "we can save those two guys from Frank Frye!" The consensus was that was a good idea. We opened the backdoor, whistled to the fugitives, and two young men, both out of breath, ran up and dove into the panel truck.</div> <bR> <div> Under a streetlight on Cherry Street, we recognized them as "Los Mariachis," two white guys from Nogales who spoke fluent Spanish, played guitars well and were the envied darlings of Sorority Row for their unsolicited post-midnight serenades of sorority houses.</div> <bR> <div> One guy was Travis Edmonson, whose acclaimed hell-raising somehow had not compromised his mother's having been named Arizona Mother of the Year, the previous year, based probably upon the ccomplishments of his older brothers, a couple of academics, one of whom was a prominent Greek-language scholar.</div> <bR> <div> The other guy was Roger Smith, whose daddy had a shirt shop in Nogales where he custom-made cowboy shirts for bull riders and other rodeo performers, entire western bands, etc. A shirt with a Buck Smith label was prized by cowboys and wannabees.</div> <bR> <div> Asked why the hell they were running through the night from Officer Frank Frye, after catching his breath and interrupting himself several times to sort of "blow" like a mule laboring up the trail from the floor of the Grand Canyon, Travis said he was a cultural anthropology major, that the next week was Semana Santa, Easter Week, and he was doing a class project with the elders of a nearby Yaqui village.</div> <bR> <div> In order to ingratiate himself with them, he had promised to get plenty of palm fronds for the village's traditional Palm Sunday procession. (The village vegetation was pretty much limited to sage brush.) So they were helping themselves to palm fronds on campus when the ever-vigilant Frank Frye came upon them.</div> <bR> <div> Travis' buddy from high school, Roger, also a UofA student, was just helping him. Travis' subsequent musical trajectory is well known.  Roger Smith also made a name for himself as a co-star of the popular 1950s TV series, "77 Sunset Strip," and has been married to Ann Margret for about 40 years."</div> <bR> <div> Martin P. Houseman, San Diego</div> <div> July 2008</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> LIN HOLLAND of Medford, Oregon selects the boleros Sin Ti and Malagueña  Salerosa as her favorite Travis Edmonson performances.</div> <bR> <div> “I first heard Bud & Travis music when I was in high school in the 60's. My brother-in-law would sing and play these wonderful songs and had this great guitar strumming he called bolero.  He said he was learning this style from a "Bud & Travis in Concert" album. He let me borrow the album and I was mesmerized. These two went right to my soul with their musical style. Their singing, guitar playing and comedic patter filled my young life with so much happiness. I am sorry that Bud is now gone and that I never had the opportunity to see them perform, but their music will go on forever .</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="da3aabe0.jpg" border=0 width="170" height="190" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Lin Holland</I></div> <bR> <div> You see performers today trying to capture their audience with the entire stage filled with musicians, instruments, dancers, fog, lights, fireworks, explosions.... All Bud & Travis ever needed was an empty stage, 2 stools, their guitars and a spotlight. They were true stars. </div> <bR> <div> Travis has such a wonderful, clear, clean tone to his voice, and his guitar playing was magnificent.  I would LOVE to have a personally signed CD from him. I would consider this a personal treasure!</div> <bR> <div> I thank Travis Edmonson for his wonderful gift to the </div> <div> world.”</div> <bR> <div> Lin Holland</div> <div> October 2005</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> BARBARA SMALL sent the following reaction after receiving a CD from the Travis Edmonson Collection.</div> <bR> <div> “How can I thank you enough for sending me part of my past years in such a special package? Spotlight arrived and brought with it all of that wonderful harmony, sweet feelings and fun times long ago.</div> <bR> <div> I can't believe that I remember each song exactly - all of the lyrics, word for word - even the Spanish (phonetically). I got the giggles at knowing that I never took Spanish, but there it was in this much older brain.  Our college group heard it because we had the only phonograph in the group and had two records of Bud and Travis</div> <bR> <div> Two special men with close harmony singing as a single voice at times.  It struck me in later years that the two sang of people things - sad and happy. After all of the years, we all learn that those are the important, lasting things.</div> <bR> <div> Travis, there must be a wealth of warm feelings inside to think of us who hold you in high regard. Great music sang with sincerity.</div> <bR> <div> I must tell about a trip to the Yucatan peninsula (Chichen Itza) in about 1971. We stayed at the Archeological digs there and one night had dinner in a little place where they had strolling musicians. We were the only Norte Americanos present.  I requested Malaguena Salerosa and saw the light in their eyes while they were playing it. Not as good as your recordings, but we all loved it - so far from home.</div> <bR> <div> Thanks so much for all of the memories wrapped up in that little CD.</div> <bR> <div> Best to you,”</div> <div> Barbara Small</div> <div> July 2006</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Comments Pages</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 1">1</A>     <A HREF="comments2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 2">2</A>     <A HREF="comments3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 3">3 </A>    <A HREF="comments4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 4">4</A>     <A HREF="comments5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 5">5</A>     <A HREF="comments6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 6">6</A>     <A HREF="comments7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 7">7</A>     <A HREF="comments8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 8">8</A>      <A HREF="comments9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 9">9</A>     <A HREF="comments10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 10">10</A> </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="comments11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 11">11</A>      <A HREF="comments12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 12">12</A>       <A HREF="comments13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 13">13</A>      <A HREF="comments14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 14">14</A>     <A HREF="comments15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 15">15</A>     <A HREF="comments16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 16">16</A>      <A HREF="comments17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 17">17</A> </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="comments18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 18">18</A>      <A HREF="comments19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 19">19</A>     <A HREF="comments20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 20">20</A>      <A HREF="comments21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 21">21</A>      <A HREF="comments22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 22">22</A>      <A HREF="comments23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 23">23</A>     <A HREF="comments24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 24">24</A>      </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="comments25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 25">25</A>      <A HREF="comments26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 26">26</A>     <A HREF="comments27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 27">27</A>     <A HREF="comments28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 28">28</A>      <A HREF="comments29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 29">29</A>      <A HREF="comments30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recollections Comments 30">30</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>   <script language="Javascript"> // do not make any changes to anything past this point or tracking script will not work var data; 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