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One of the most frequent things I heard my mother say was “I met the most interesting person.” I seem to have inherited both her curiosity and ability. On Saturday night, we went to a free concert in a former church in the middle of Pennsylvania. The call it the Old Lynn church. No longer used for worship, it has become a place for free folk concerts. The group Four Shillings Short was wonderful but even more interesting was the couple next to us. They looked to be about 70 and were RV’ers from Virginia. They met each other just after WWII when she was hitch-hiking in NYC in a snow storm. She was a city person and he was a German-born US soldier who learned to speak English from his Louisiana Army unit. I never head anyone speak Cajun with a German accent. He gratefulness for our country and his patriotism to it was heartwarming. He didn’t appreciate the anti-war lyrics of the singers but his Democratic NYC wife did!