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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 35, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 35, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter
When we brought out Tom Tilton: Coaster and Fisherman back in 1984 (actually it was Northeast Folklore -XXIII: 1982) we included a story about a Captain Pinhead on page 62, just the way Tom told it to Gale Huntington. The book hadn't been out long before I got a smoklngly angry letter from one Robert O. Walsh saying he was Captain Pinhead and that story was all wrong and he wanted us to do something to set the record straight. The only thing I could think of was to suggest he write up what really happened and we'd publish it …