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 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...
by Weston | Aug 22, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
From the 8/13/09 issue of the Woodstock Times, “Woodstock Nation on the Shelves” by Paul Smart: “Perhaps the biggest book bash the town’s seen in some time, the bringing to life, via an actual-to-heavens musical concert for the locally-produced Roots...
by Weston | Jul 1, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
During the spring of 1968, Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys lived on Manhattan’s lower east side. They were the house band at the Electric Circus. The way banjo player Charlie Chin tells it, Bob Smith, the keyboard player, began to promote the idea that...
by Weston | Jun 4, 2009 | Book Events, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Saturday, July 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock, NY: WoodstockArts, in association with The Golden Notebook, will host a brief presentation celebrating the newly published Roots ofthe 1969 Woodstock Festival. This...
