My dad*, whose last day job was safety officer for Harvard's chem department, was in the instrument repairing scene in the Boston area, and was visiting someone who did guitar work, and met your cousin Joan there, back in the day when I was first listening to Mimi.
She struck him as being rather intense.
Thanks for the thermo pdf book, by the way!
*: https://pbase.com/davidjl/image/121610792
