College student Nora Rodes narrates this episode on folk legend Margaret MacArthur, whose love of music led her to preserve and document many old songs, creating a home in Marlboro Vermont, very close to Brattleboro, where she set down deep roots for her family and an extended folk family. Through Nora's storytelling and adroit use of multiple musical selections, we learn about Margaret's peripatetic journey growing up, her college years in Chicago where she met her husband, and the young couple's move to Marlboro to start a family. Margaret discovers local music and begins gathering songs and oral histories with the help of Edith Sturgis’ 1919 book 'Songs from the Hills of Vermont' and Helen Hartness Flanders’ 1937 book 'Country Songs of Vermont.' She forms important relations with the authors and other Brattleboro-area folk musicians and scholars Tony Barrand and John Roberts (who wrote the book 'On the Banks of Coldbrook') and James Atwood, among many others. Margaret collected stories, songs and made numerous field recordings as well as writing her own pieces. We learn about her instruments and marketing of the 'MacArthur Harp' during the American Folk Revival. Her relations with Smithsonian Folkways Records' Moses Asch and her first album with them in 1962 are also covered. The historically significant song "Marlboro Merchants" and its relation to the MacArthur Collection at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont are included. She recorded nine albums, appeared at folk programs and festivals with her children performing original songs as well as traditional ballads and other songs of the lives and ways of Vermonters of the past. As a visiting artist at elementary schools, she spread the joy of song-making with many children and helped keep stories alive. Margaret's many accolades are mentioned, including her June 2005 concert at the Library of Congress and songs performed there. The piece concludes with how Margaret's home was a welcoming hub for folk folks who often gathered there in her warm embrace.