Papers 4
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Odell, Scott, 1935-
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content: J. Scott Odell folk music collection
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content: J. Scott Odell folk music collection / Series 8: Accruals / 8.6: Porter, Burt
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated, 2004 - 2007
container: label: Container
content: Box 12, Folder 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: File contains correspondence and ephemera. Correspondence (letters and printed emails addressed to the Odells) contains family matters, political views, creative work (poetry), and mutual friends (including the Schumanns and Bread and Puppet, Evelyn Wagner, Tom Azarian, Peter Kane Dufault, Bill Royer, Ron Sanville, and others). Attached documents include an invitation to a memorial for Lucinda Porter, a drawing of "The Bobbin Mill Folks" by Skip Sedare (2007) (see subseries 8.8 (Vermont) ephemera for similar drawings), copies of the annual Bread and Puppet meeting notes (2005), a resume of Burt Porter's partner Lindsay Knowlton, and documents related to the publishing of Porter's collection of poems "A Spiral Wind" (2005). The correspondence also includes a letter to "Fellow Vermonters" sent by Vermont Senator Bernard Sanders.