Dodge, visually impaired Bluegrass musician, discusses his childhood on a farm in rural Loami, Illinois: family life, home entertainments and holiday celebrations, his loss of sight, early musical training and influences, education at the Illinois School for the Blind, early radio programming, and ham radios. He also discusses his career in music, performances, children's concerts, radio appearances, other musicians, work as a music instructor and deejay, musical styles and innovations in technology. The lyrics to a number of songs are in-cluded in the memoir and references are made to Jimmy Rogers, Louis Armstrong, Peter Frampton, and Johnny Cash.

2 vols., 99 pp. Interview by Deborah Brothers, 1984 OPEN See collateral file: interivewer's notes and newspaper clipping about Dodge.