Jim Stey

"In those days, at the museum - you know museum space on the ground floor is very, very small, so it was really kind of limited to very few people. You had to have a button to get in. They used to have standing lines and the fire marshal would allow only so many people in at a time. But the musicians had no problems coming and going all the time. They wore their little buttons and that was sort of like a gold card. So I said, 'Gee whiz, I'm going to play so I don't have to wait.'

"So then next year, 1978, me and my friends, who were all kind of beginners, formed the Potluck String Band, and we performed."

- Juneau's Jim Stey, remembering his first folk festival in 1977, when it was held at the Alaska State Museum.