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...according to Wood 'N Energy, a newsletter published by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, U.S.-made circulating heaters are the variety most in demand, both because of the amount of heat they deliver and their ease of operation with thermostatic controls. International Troubadour Bill Crofut (he sings in 27 languages) has installed three American-made log burners in his Wilton, Conn., home. With a $425 Riteway Model 37, Steven and Mary Ahlgren have used nothing but wood for the past six years to heat their five-room, multilevel house in Sanbornton, N.H. During last winter...
Addiss and Crofut, former classmates at Vermont's Putney prep school, teamed up in 1960 and spent one entire year on a State Department tour of Africa and the Far East "getting to the little villages where the big orchestras and ballet companies can't go." Surviving "the unspeakable pangs of dysentery," they traveled by Jeep, elephant, water buffalo, dugout canoe and bamboo raft, performed before a collective audience of half a million persons and collected hundreds of native songs and instruments...
Chinese Legs. The experience has made them true international troubadors. Their repertory of songs is staggering. They sing in 27 different languages, including Batak, Luo, Amharic and Kis-si, and play such native instruments as the Indonesian angklung and the Chinese ch'eng. The neck of Crofut's banjo is fashioned from a leg from a Chinese table, while the frets are made out of toy railroad tracks from Korea...
...Crofut, a lanky and engaging native of Cleveland, was trained as a French horn player, and has a music degree from Allegheny College. His wife and nine-month-old daughter are traveling with him on the tour. Bachelor Addiss, a dark and more intense counterpart to Crofut, studied composition at Harvard under Composer Walter Piston, has written one opera and is at work on a second. Born in New York City, he was teaching at Mannes College of Music and editing a music magazine when he decided to strike out with Crofut...
Their mission, says Addiss, is not to propagandize but simply "to show through music that people are the same the world over, sharing the same yearnings and problems. We don't want to be lecturers; we want to be alive and fun." This week Addiss and Crofut were moving on to carry their message to Malaysia, with Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Kenya still...