From the Editor

A Memorial Service conducted in the Quaker Tradition will provide opportunity for remembering and celebrating Karen Baldwin's life.  The service will take place Saturday, December 1st, from 2-4 pm, in the Great Rooms of Mendenhall Student Center, on East Carolina University Campus.

In lieu of flowers for Karen Baldwin, individuals may send donations to the following:

North Carolina Conservancy  
One University Place, Suite 290  
4705 University Drive  
Durham, NC 27707 

or 

The Friends of the East Carolina University Folklore Archive 
Department of English  
2201 Bate Building 
East Carolina University 
Greenville, NC 27858.  

For the archive, please write checks out to East Carolina University, c/o of Friends of the ECU Folklore Archive.

For KB 

I had a friend once step forward then step behind when no one else could see that I was standing in line ready to choose the colors we care so much about that keep us company but what we wear in choosing is never up to us.

Before we know it true we are called to tough, intelligence doing deeds that mind the shrines made for other people's needs and what we do is the language of all we have in how little left there is -- when a friend and colleague passes by.

I didn't know her very well but then I did not let myself be known so when I heard and saw her name when I read on the day how it was said I don't remember what I was doing that was so important in what I did or might have done.

Then it came to me suddenly like Swans at Lake Mattamuskeet the lost bird she was so angry about at me for not caring enough and the next day I woke up with these words in my head that have been with me ever since words have come because I thought I'd have time some day to write them down -- I had a friend once step forward then step behind when no one else could see  -- not even me.