Wow. Thanks, Helen. So far (her physical capabilities have been diminishing) she has come to Louisville every summer for the past 25 years to sing at Kentucky Music Weekend, and we always try to go hear her. One of my favorite stories about her is the time 'way back when her career was just getting started. She'd been invited to some huge festival, with a crowd many times the size of any she'd sung to previously. Just before her time to perform, there was a band that played big, noisy music that had the crowd clapping and stamping. She said she was a-wonderin' what on earth the crowd would think of her little old self, all by her lonesome, after an act like that, and she was frightened half to death. But she walked out on that stage and sang Amazing Grace, à capella; and according to our MC who was telling us this story, Jean's clear soprano rang out over the crowd, and there was a complete hush among them until about a minute after she'd stopped; then they about brought the place down, applauding her.