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Thank you for including Maybelle Carter in your research and presentations. Perhaps the Stoneman Family? One of my favorite groups, with a fluid complement, the onstage group might have sons and daughters, cousins, grandchildren.... , Pop Stoneman was once asked how he came to have such a large family, he said it was because his wife was hard of hearing. When he came home from his work in the mine, he would clean up, have dinner, help the kids with homework, and when they were put to bed, he would ask his wife, "so, do you want to go to bed, or what?" and she would reply "What?"....

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