I don’t think I have the original so I scanned the shirt.  This is the design I did for our Delaware Friends of Folk FALL FLING back in 1997.  I do a shirt every year, wonder what I’ll come up with next?

This festival is still going on each year but it is now called the Delmarva Folk Festival.  http://delfolk.org/

We are having our 19th Folk Fest on October 1,2- less than 3 months away.  Save the date and come on out!

This design is fun for lots of reasons (to me, anyway!);

• I wasn’t a professional graphic designer, yet, back then.
• We had Norman Blake as the headliner.  The dude riding the chicken should bear a likeness.  I don’t know if he saw it.  That’s another story.  I was inspired by a book of larger than life, fantastic postcards from history- a kid was riding a chicken in the book.  Maybe something else from that book will inspire the 2010 shirt?!
• All the art was done by hand, I probably printed ‘Fall Fling’ on my inkjet and pasted it up.  I had a Mac but no Adobe products back then.
• I did know a gal named Delma that lived in Seaford, Delaware at the time.  I told her she got mentioned in my design, she wasn’t that impressed.  She was very nice about it, well, she was just nice anyhow, a coworker when I was working at the newspaper.
• I really did wish you were there.

Love,

J.