The Reader's Digest magazine used to have a feature called "My Most Unforgettable Character." Maybe it still does, but I haven't picked one up in years. I don't think waiting rooms have them anymore. I never considered writing a piece by that title because I always thought it was something best done in the later years of life. Now that I've arrived at that distinction, here goes. His name was Bob DeWitt. We first met at his place in Mariposa, California. He had a ranch in those Yosemite foothills where he'd built a little barn theater he called the "Feedback Theater." Bob's connection to the outside world was through the Pacifica radio station KFCF in Fresno, Ca. He'd heard some excerpts of a show that my friend Lenny Anderson and I were doing called "An Evening with Woody Guthrie" and invited us to do the program at his venue. Apparently, local ranchers, folkies, and interested people from far and near often attended th...
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