"There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism--government."
-Ronald Reagan

It has come to our attention that many of our readers have become lost in this website .... it being so damn BIG and all .... so to try to alleviate the problem and to relieve their relatives of the expense of hiring search parties and private detectives to drag them out into the light of day again we have provided somewhat of a site map below. There are, however, Uncharted Places still extant, so dropping bread crumbs along the way might be indicated. Beware of the Behemoth.

"The first places where humans could strike it rich in space are a handful of asteroids near Earth, composed almost completely of valuable metals: iron, nickel, gold, platinum. In particular, the asteroid Amun, a mountain of natural stainless steel mixed with precious metals, contains 30 times as much metal as humans have mined and processed throughout history. The smallest of dozens of known metallic asteroids, it would be worth at least an estimated $20 trillion based on current market prices." - CNN News, May 2001

Welcome to White Tree Productions! This site has a lot of various things included in it, from vintage instrument photographs to the latest on popular Phoenix Arizona entertainer and folk music iconoclastic banjo player Joe Bethancourt. There's information on that peculiar music called filk, folk music connections, science fiction conventions, Cowboy Action Shooting, the 9th Memorial Cavalry, The Bringers, Banjo Salve, World War One and a host of other stuff.

Featherless Biped includes Joe's "editorials" about various subjects. It probably should be mentioned also that many of these pages go wandering off into side trips that may not be listed or linked here .... so be prepared to have an Adventure, and pack a lunch. Have fun. Beware of the Behemoth. We also build web pages for hire.