Posted: 4/21/2003 1:47:03 PM EDT
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Chuck Larkin, "The Bluegrass Storyteller", passed away last Friday---and a good man is gone. I first met Chuck in 1977. My girlfriend at the time and he went to the same church and she thought we'd have somethings in common, so she arranged for us to meet. She was right. When we first met, Chuck was still working w/ the US Dept of HHS, (used to be HEW) as a voc rehab specialist and had only started storytelling a couple of years earlier. Over the years he did more and more of it, until by the time he retired from the Govt he had a whole new career. He worked Folk and Bluegrass shows all over the country, even had a variety type show on a local PBS station for a few years, that was syndicated around the USA. Despite being semi big time in the later years tho, Chuck would always respond to a request from a school classroom teacher here in Georgia, and if he could work it in, do a freebie for the kids, or the vets at the VA hospital here in Atlanta. He'd been a Navy Corpsman himself, during the Korean War. Well, I could go on for an awfully long time about the guy, but suffice it to say that I, and a lot of other people around the country, will miss him. There's a cartoon of Chuck at the Pearly Gates at [url]www.onceuponatoon.com/chuck.html[/url] If you ever saw him perform, thecartoon will have special meaning for you[:D] Damn, I miss him. |