by Weston | Apr 19, 2024 | Roots of Woodstock Blog |
The United States’s involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1955 and ended twenty years later in 1975. It was a proxy war between the anti-communist forces (US) and communist forces (USSR and China). Millions of Vietnamese were killed, and the US military...
by Weston | Mar 11, 2024 | Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Detail from the cover of Still Life with Violin, a biography of Stefan Lokos[/caption]Stefan Lokos (1913-1994) was born in Budapest, Hungary, and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, the City Music Academy of Budapest, and the Music Conservatory of...
by Weston | Feb 2, 2024 | Book Events, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Sled Hill Café Posters at Swann Auction Galleries On February 8, 2024, thirteen posters from the Sled Hill Café are up for sale at the Swann Auction Galleries in New York City. In 1968, the Sled Hill Café, The Elephant, and the Café Expresso hosted nightly music...
by Weston | Jan 17, 2024 | Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Poems from Woodstock by Leonard Brown Sound Out was a music festival held in 1967 outside Woodstock, NY, on Pan Copeland’s farm. Jocko Moffitt co-produced it with Steve Bishop. The latter cut his teeth booking the Philadelphia Folk Festival and was instrumental...
by Weston | Mar 30, 2023 | Roots of Woodstock Blog |
The 1960s was a time of tumultuous change, and Ed and Miriam Sanders actively led the counterculture. Ed was a rising beat poet, and Miriam was a young artist. Together they drafted missives supporting freedom of speech, and they demonstrated against the US’s...
