Peter's glimpses of family life in Newport and Bar Harbor are, in fact, an ethnography of top drawer New England society. The notion of the Johnson p�re teaching his son that then US President Franklin Roosevelt was a traitor to our class seems incredible today. Cleveland Amory's The Proper Bostonians was filled with similar tales of the same sorts of people, but in a more detached way.

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Peter Johnson is a singer, concert promoter, record producer, writer, traveler, prankster, husband, father, and a fixture of the Cambridge music scene for the last fifty years. As the founder of Living Folk Records and Concerts, he introduced a number of traditional musicians from Ireland and the British Isles to North American audiences, thereby shaping the trajectory of this important music genre as it gained a larger place in world music.

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