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W: So you, were you having budget problems at that point to where you could only

 get like, that out and

 G: Yeah, there were some budget problems although we __ once stood

 was also funded very heavily by the park fund, park service, which was why it was

 sold for so cheap for so long. $3.75 until it went out of print just a couple of

 years ago, but

 W: But it was actually printed by the Presses of Florida though wasn't it?

 G: Yeah, I know, but th- --the park says they gave them $2,000.



 W: Any chance of it being reprinted?

 G: Certainly the documentary material's still good. The other things we put out stuff

 course in the Florida Anthropologist and in the Florida Silver Quarterly and things

 like the Noco Roco report that Hale and I did and which came out in the Florida

 Historical Quarterly. The service bought by _reprints of

 that so they were rather widely distributed to the professionals and others too. So

 there's quite a bit of complication going on even though we only had that one

 slick beginner.

W: Wtde /e had noticed that S6e/ /i background research and

 you had emergency funds for the first year, $ff-I and then it seemed like it was

 cut by about six or seven thousand each thereafter.

G: Well, it, yeah. It got pretty, pretty sticky there for a while because the, j3 Y-4

 "4-1. 0f cut the whole, well, two whole ,9^ were cut.

 which was part of the discontent, I suppose, that led to some of the other mess about

 it. The frustration.

W: You had mentioned earlier that Rip Bullen was your assistant. Did he, what, did he

 come in shortly after Hale went back to school or..?

G: When Hale went back to school, I started looking to fill that position, writing around

 to diffIerent places, universities and so on and it happened to be at one of those