by Weston | Oct 20, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Weston Blelock, co-author of Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to “Woodstock,” will be interviewed about the Roots book and upcoming Barnes & Noble book event as follows: 10/28 at 9 a.m. on WKZE with Rick Schneider 10/30 at...
by Weston | Oct 19, 2009 | Roots Book Releases, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Woodstock, NY—October 19, 2009—Weston Blelock and Julia Blelock, co-authors of Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to “Woodstock,” will be hosting a PowerPoint presentation and book signing at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1177 Ulster...
by Weston | Oct 1, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Hervey White was a storied hippie in the early 1900s. His novels were praised by Theodore Dreiser, and he hobnobbed at Jane Addams’s Hull House with such other progressive intellectuals as Clarence Darrow, Sidney Webb, and Ramsay MacDonald. It was there that he...
by Weston | Sep 24, 2009 | Carbon-Neutral Initiative, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Forty years ago, the ’69 Woodstock festival triggered many new trends. One such, the back-to-the-land movement, helped bring eco-consciousness to the forefront. The following year Earth Day was created. In March 2007, the Town of Woodstock passed a Zero-Carbon...
by Weston | Sep 17, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Billy Batson, a rough-hewn and as authentic a musician as you’re likely to encounter, arrived in 1965 Woodstock by way of California and Greenwich Village. For a time, he gigged around town as a solo act. In the late sixties, he played a set at The Elephant....
by Weston | Sep 2, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Posted by Weston Blelock Bob Liikala’s Group 212 Inter-Media Project exhibit at the Historical Society of Woodstock will close on September 6th. Liikala has been on hand since the August 8th opening to guide visitors and discuss the project’s formation and...
