Richard Yelle talks about not wanting to go to Pilchuck. Oral history interview with Richard Yelle by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 17, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:30.

Richard Yelle: I remember seeing some photographs [of Pilchuck] I think Jamie [James Carpenter] was showing me, and he was [laughs] sleeping on the ground in a sleeping bag. You know [laughs], with no tent or anything. And I just, ‘No.’ I—‘Nope.’ And also, you know, I really wanted to do something more than just blow glass.