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At my first Grateful Dead show in the 80's, I was as drawn to the fans (the Deadheads) as I was to the music. I started taking formal portraits of Deadheads in the parking lots of Midwest concert venues in the 80's and 90's. Around 2015, with the help of social media and word of mouth, we started finding and re-photographing them and with the help of David Gans, collecting their oral histories for the soon to be published book, "Aging Gratefully". Watch for the Kickstarted in spring 2025, and release of the book in the fall or winter of 2025.