Title: Surprising people.
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Blog Entry: My accommodation for that night was with Camille and Frank Duane Rosengreen. An elderly couple with a fantastic rambling 17thc ex mission house in the woodlands. Frank was a writer and playwright with an impressive history of Public Broadcast Service recordings under his belt. He was also at one time the youngest ever playwright on Broadway. [br] With Jo Lynn we sat up to the early hours drinking wine and Camille told us of their associations with the 60's Greenwich village crowd "yes, I knew Dylan - to be honest with you I never thought he'd amount to a hill of beans" She was active in the peace movement personified by Baez. [br] She had also been a protege in her day, on the piano, and had later played guitar and sang jazz. On the wall amongst the original artworks and the mexican carvings, hung a lovely tenor guitar. I told her that I was looking for one for myself "That's my mother's old Gretsch". She said. In the corner was a black case which contained a well-played Spanish style guitar. "Do you still play?" I asked her. "Not for years." She said. Neither did she touch the baby grand that dominated the room. "To be a succesful classical musician at the level where I was heading you have to give up everything else" She said. "I wanted to do other things with my life as well" [br][br] The thousands of books that lined the walls, the art, the lovely house, the pictures of her beautiful and succesful Hollywood Prop Artist daughter, her 60 year marriage and her vitality and intellect all seemed testament to a good decision well made.
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