by Weston | Sep 4, 2012 | Roots Book |
On April 21, 2012, fifty-five members of the Norwegian Folk College visited Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. During the morning, they toured the museum and grounds. In the afternoon, they were bussed over to Woodstock, NY, to learn about the backstory of the 1969...
by Weston | Aug 23, 2011 | Roots Book |
On August 13th, the Historical Society of Woodstock (HSW) screened Jud Yalkut’s Clarence and Aquarian Rushes at Upstate Films. The first film is about Clarence Schmidt, a sculptor and sixties pop icon, and the second one is a documentary about the Woodstock...
by Weston | Mar 22, 2011 | Roots Book |
Billy Faier, one of the co-founders of the Woodstock Folk Festival, came to Woodstock as a 14-year-old in 1945. According to Eleanor Walden, Billy was a very independent teenager. She remembers visiting his apartment in the mid-1940s in Greenwich Village and listening...
by Weston | May 21, 2010 | Roots Book |
In 1964 Doug Gilbert, a photojournalist on assignment for Look Magazine, came up to Woodstock, NY, to do a story on Bob Dylan. The folk singer was on the cusp of superstardom. The next two years saw Dylan release Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home,...
