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 | 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 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...
