When I was a kid my parents took me on a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. My Dad is an amateur woodworker and while we were walking down a dirt road in the colonial district area, Roy Underhill was working alone in the front yard of one of the houses and my father recognised him (he's a huge fan of The Woodwright's Shop) and walked over to say hello and thank him. He was a great guy, super friendly and totally cool about talking shop. I took of picture of them together that I still have.

Anyway, without that PBS show I would have never gotten into hand-tooled woodworking.