In 1971, when I first became involved in the Festival of American Folklife as a fieldworker assigned to identify craftspeople for the presentation of traditions from my native Ohio, I recommended that a man from East Canton named Virgil Miller be invited to den1onstrate the process of apple cider-making on the Mall. I can admit now that I recommended Mr. Miller as a potential Festival participant almost as an afterthought; having failed to identify as many craftspeople as I had planned, I hoped that cidermaking might by some stretch of the term "craft" be considered along with my other recommendations. When Mr. Miller was invited to participate I was happy for him but privately concerned that, among practitioners of more widely recognized and respected Ohio traditions (rug weavers, basket makers, gunsmiths, and the like), Mr. Miller's demonstration of cider-making would appear so unremarkable that few Festival visitors would pause to observe him at work.