I grew up in Chapel Hill NC through the 50’s and 60’s when its music scene was vibrant with bluegrass music, “beach music,” and the Piedmont string band revival saw bands such as the Red Clay Ramblers and the Fuzzy Mountain String Band at their height. There was also early rock & roll spinning off the folk movement, and one of my neighbors down on Morgan Creek was the Taylor family. They all played guitar and sang, except my close friend Hugh, who just liked kicking around the creek and woods with us and playing ball. But his older brother James was a big influence. He always had a guitar nearby and invited me into his private space to share what he knew. They grew bamboo and he could hollow out the cane and make a flute, which he gave to me. On Morgan Creek we would camp and hang out near a large boulder of granite that hung out over the water, which had always been called Elephant Rock. This rock was my touch stone. When I released my first CD project in 1997, Ways That Are Dark, I created a website to help promote and inform the album. Of course, I named it elephantrock.com. As I expanded my music projects to include a Brazilian Choro band, a mandolin orchestra, a mandolin camp, a duo, and a working band, I used the site to contain links to all of these. This site still has its legacy CD listed with all the notes, since many researchers of Horace Kephart still find interest in the CD, and now includes the other groups and projects I create. Thanks for visiting us, Dan Gore.