... Don Shorock created his unofficial Winfield site as he developed the Shorock Family Home Page.
After Winfield 25 (1996), Paul Kislanko wrote a trip report about Winfield, and Don added a link to it from his page. Paul was obviously having too much fun, so his Christmas present was a scanner and that first trip report turned into an index of trip reports in January 1997.
Don also got a scanner for Christmas, so about the same time (January 1997) he added a new feature to his page called "Memory of the Week" and mentioned that he didn't have enough space to keep all of his pictures on-line. Paul suggested to Don that spare space on some of Paul's dormant accounts could be used as an archive of Don's memories. Since then, Don & Paul have collaborated (no - conspired) to get more Winfield pages on the World Wide Web.
Winfield-l discussions about what could be done for the Winfield-l subscribers who could not attend Winfield 26 led Paul to orient his 1997 Trip Report to include more campground photos. Don picked up on the campground idea, and created the Virtual Winfield site using Paul's close-up of the map at the Coffey Grounds upon which Winfield-l members had marked the location of their camps.
Meanwhile, the "spare" space for Paul's archives of Memory of the Week was filling up and occaisionally the "Memory" was a web page with links instead of just a picture. Paul couldn't just delete old pictures to make more space available for new ones, because some of them had been referenced from other pages. After Winfield 26, Paul started the Winfield Wide Web Index site to provide room for growth. The service provider required an index page that references material stored on the site, and since there wasn't much other than the index of "Volume 2" of Shorock's Memory of the Week Archives at the time, the site was initially populated with links to references to all of the Winfield-related pages Don and Paul knew about.
In 1997, Horizon Internet Technologies provided internet e-mail access from the festival grounds. For Winfield 27, Horizon became the new host for the Official Walnut Valley Festival site, and Don Shorock accepted the role of Webmaster for www.wvfest.com. The redesigned site explicitly recognized the Winfield Wide Web Index and Don's Unofficial site as the directory for web pages maintained by festival fans.
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