By Tom Davenport Delaplane The recent news coverage neglected to mention how much Folkstreams.net owes to the work of my long-time assistant, Shawn Nicholls from Delaplane. We met at a film festival at Highland School, where her 13-year-old son Zach was a student interested in filmmaking. Zach took on the task of making trailers for the long-form documentaries that we stream on Folkstreams. He developed into a talented filmmaker, later went on to graduate from William & Mary and now he writes books about sharks under the pseudonym of âDr. Jaws.â When he began to work for me, Zach was too young to drive to my studio, and I got to know his mother Shawn, and she, me. She was both practical and entrepreneurial and had a terrific curiosity about the films and folklife that Folkstreams was documenting. I asked her if she could become my part-time assistant, helping me track down films and filmmakers from a master list that folklorists Dan and Beverly Patterson had made.