The Circle Unbroken: Doc Watson
“Many times, I’d been on the road [after Merle’s death in a 1985 tractor accident] and sometimes physically and sometimes with my heart, gone to my knees and said, ‘Lord, if you don’t help me with this, I can’t take it.’
more...Girls Girls Girls: Letters from 1969
There was one precious teenage year when I was pursued by girls, girls, girls. When I was 14, from 8th-9th grade.
more...Sent Away (Part 2)
For some inexplicable reason in the 1960s, Great Neck developed an inflated reputation for having the best schools in America. Families moved to Great Neck to send their kids to school.
more...Hippie Heaven: A Night at the Fillmore East
A night at the Fillmore East in hippie heaven, 1970. A thinly disguised Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West of Mountain. Excerpted from my future novel, All Roads Lead To Great Neck.
more...Steambath Letters
It was 1970, but really the apex of the 1960s. Though I loved the play, my father assumed I only came every Friday for the nude shower scene, featuring a gorgeous actress named Annie Rachel. It was in the first act, which I always caught before the early show at the Fillmore East, around the corner.
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