[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Jesse-Joe:
All very interesting John. Whatever became of Matthew Fifer? I remember E.M.P. answering one of my letters, telling me about this Mr. Fifer, that had opened up a site, on the Internet, about our beloved Poet. I of course at that time did not own a computer, and tought how I was going to miss out a lot on GL...

so there you are J-J now you know what a blessing in your life your computer is.
Regarding Matthew,I have corresponded with him by email within the last year he is now I believe living and working in Boston .He told me that his pioneering GL site was purely a temporary demonstration aid for the students he was teaching HTML/web authoring to at NWU to show what one could do on a web site so he naturally chose GL as the subject.
the site was hosted on his own webspace on the main NWU website,so when he left that employment the site was taken down

If you google long enough for "mfifer lightfoot" as I just did you will find sites that still list Matthew's old URL which was at:-
http://www.mmlc.nwu.edu/~mfifer/lightfoot/index.html
if you then copy and paste that into the "take me back" search box at httP://www.wayback.notlong.com
you will find that there are 24 sets of his website archived from 1998 through 2001
(not all are complete) including of course the one I linked to above
http://www.mfifer.notlong.com/
I saved many text details from his site back in 1997 and intend to try to recreate as much as possible to upload to my own web site as a tribute to Matthew,but of course I first have to clear the idea with him.