Shankar Vedantam
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And so he would just, he was funny.
Steve and his father both felt they were in the presence of an extraordinary human being.
He did a lot of things, but he was quite a master.
Steve's father willingly gave his time to the project.
Steve says after Riley died, Stasha got in touch.
She was concerned that her dad had conned his dad.
But Steve says the money wasn't important.
The money doesn't mean anything as far as... I saw the enjoyment that it brought to my dad.
Riley left his life's work, the Encyclopedia of Folk Music, to his friend, Ted Enslin.
Ted stored them in his old insurance office.
And that's where they sat for years.
I kept asking, Dad, you know, what are you going to do with these, Dad?
What are you going to do with these?
And he says, they're worth a lot of money.