From: shafrankok@cs.com   
      
   In the early 70's when I was getting out of college I lived in Harrisburg PA   
   and could hear Bob's show on WIOV-FM out of  Ephrata (which I recall he   
   would pronounce  as E- Fray- tah).  He and another local radio personality   
   Al Shade on WLBR in Lebanon were among the very few who played bluegrass.   
   It was he who I hold responsible for my having the musical equivalent of   
   figuring out the broccoli tastes pretty good after all.  From his playing   
   the Seldom Scene's recording when the first one came out he introduced me to   
   Mike Auldridge's playing and from that I got the ambition that one day I   
   would learn to play that instrument, which was the most beautiful thing I   
   thought I'd ever heard.  That ambition has transformed over time to my being   
   a student of the instrument.  I won't count myself really as a player.  From   
   that I was fortunate to even get a chance to perform a bit.  Much enjoyent   
   has been mine, the result in no small way of Bob Montgomery's radio show.   
      
   Thanks, Michael, for triggering that memory for me.   
      
   Ken Shafranko   
   Williamsport, PA   
      
   >   
   > A friend of my family's was Bob Montgomery, who went by the stage name   
   > "The Old Sheriff." When he owned a restaurant in Nottingham, PA and had   
   > a radio show broadcast from my family's music store next door, he   
   > called himself "The Sheriff of Nottingham". He was fun. Especially when   
   > he played Dobro while being held upside-down by his ankles.   
   >   
   > --   
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