by Weston | Dec 7, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
In 2001 powerHouse Books published there is no eye, John Cohen’s photographic memoir of his life and times. He is a member of the New City Lost Ramblers, and his photographs hang in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of...
by Weston | Dec 4, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Pat Lamanna, a Camp Woodland alum, will be performing in the “Phil Ochs Fest” at the Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock, on December 5th. The gig begins at 8 p.m. Others on the bill include Graham and Barbara Dean, the Flames of Discontent, and Greg...
by Weston | Nov 11, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Rick Schneider, morning host of WKZE (listen live), interviewed Weston Blelock on October 28 regarding Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Here are a couple of brief audio excerpts . . . . Woodstock’s Music Scene During the Summer of 1969: WKZE#1 Artie...
by Weston | Oct 22, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
In 1954, a 15-year-old Johnny Herald saw Pete Seeger in concert at Camp Woodland outside Phoenicia, NY. He was so inspired that he vowed he would be a musician, too. Herald, of Armenian-American background, was born and raised in Greenwich Village. His poet father...
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 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...
