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(3) cont, kept learning + changing jobs in SI, learning and growing, no biz degree
(1) Ralph w/ devotee [[?]]
(a) Hogs on the Hill —> find Jesse Jackson, shooting nearby?
Clerence Ashley, Tom Ashley 
blind electric guitar player, banjo Jeff Watson
(3) Ralph looking for roof traditions, as far back as possible, Ralph had both eyes & ear
(1) Ralph eating 16-piece KFC 
[[?]] Ralph brining in new staff to Folklife in 1970, listening to Ralph's interactions, good @ interacting w/ different groups from senators to staff
[[?]] Ralph memorial in '94: [[?]] member notes Ralph's cultural understanding, talk to elders
(3) dressing well, tie 
(2) @ Christmas, tells (2) that taking chance to come to US was good for him - Ralph new end of life, also seeing cockroaches 
(3) Joan Baez work w/ Ralph, [[?]] [[?]] meet Ori Watson + wife 
(2) Ori Watson quits + tobacco 
(1) getting crafts in festival + selling 
(2) basket making, working out of necessity 
(4) along w/ making a living, also concerned w/ letting artists have automnomy, gave Dec Watson a touch sensitive watch to tell time [[?]] @ home 
(3) along w/ Country Roads store, also CR nonprofit Jugtown potters, ethnographic film + book Korean potters