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Lives of the Painters: Pele the conqueror
Popular Song by Pele deLappe, lithograph, 1935. Part II (In last week’s Part I, a 15 year old San Franciscan Pele deLappe found herself in Woodstock in the early 1930s, befriended by Diego and Frida...
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Obituary — Peter Walther
It’s not easy to bury a legend. Death crystallizes a charismatic soul. Stories surrounding such a being magnify the force of the individual as memory creates a lens through which mortality is...
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Jerry Wapner hangs up his shingle
(Photo by Dion Ogust) On his eightieth birthday on 27th day of November, Jerry Wapner — longstanding dean of Woodstock lawyers — will retire from the law practice he created not very long after...
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Obituary: Richard C. Wilhelm
Richard C. Wilhelm, prize-winning television technician, foreign war veteran, fireman, local businessman, railroad enthusiast, beloved spouse and devoted Woodstocker of over 50 years, succumbed to a...
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Bolton Brown and the making of modern Woodstock
Bolton Brown, The Bather, 1921, Lithograph on paper, 14 x 17.5 inches, Collection of Morgan Anderson Consulting. Woodstock as we know it begins with Bolton Brown (1866-1934), a prodigy whose gifts...
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Khusi Hona: Three Woodstock students reach out to help in the third world
Matthew van Rooyen, Jonah Martindale, Jerry Tart and David Fletcher. In August of this year three high school students from Woodstock will travel to India and Nepal to spearhead a local chapter of the...
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Obituary, Linda Sweeney
Sculptor John Flannagan, Linda Lilly Sweeney and the Maverick Horse, 1920’s. Much loved, native Woodstocker Linda Sweeney died of natural causes on February 26 at Kingston Hospital, where she had been...
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Obituary: Robbie Collins
A strong, bright, one-eyed light out went in Woodstock two Fridays ago, when Robbie Collins — who we not call “Robert!” — died at the age of 56, on March 14. His was a routine carpal tunnel procedure...
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Lowell Miller’s double life
(Photo by Dion Ogust) As a local I was long ago acquainted with a) struggling artists, b) cottage industry artists, c) weekend artists, and d) “the ruination of Woodstock” as represented by families...
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Spinelli’s Burning Man hearkens back to the Maverick Festivals
Temple (photo by Frank Spinelli) Rooted in Utopia’s past, Frank Spinelli’s astounding photographic record of “Burning Man” celebrates the planet’s newest art-driven community. In doing so this native...
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Forbidden Fruits: Paw’s Tastiest Winterfest
Performing Arts of Woodstock [PAW] will be 50 next season. At the moment that feels like 49 consecutive miracles in a row. Despite a solid string of very strong shows, lousy logistics dog the company,...
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Obituary: Kiki Randolph passes on
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Like a hurricane finally blowing out to sea, Kiki Randolph, 87, departed Ferncliffe over the weekend as an ice-storm in her wake closed the New York State Thruway. Leaving stories...
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Creating Spirit Of Place
Carl Eric Lindin, Early Spring Woodstock, ca. 1930, oil on canvas Since assuming the Executive Directorship of the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in September, Neil Trager has heard a distant...
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Obituary — Jane Axel
Jane as toddler c. 1926. Long-time Woodstocker Jane Axel died in the comfort of her own home at the end of Elwyn Lane on March 2. She was 90 years old. Born and raised in New York City, the only child...
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Maverick Centennial: The Reconciliation
Hervey White outside the Maverick Concert Hall with log buttresses. (postcard photography by Louis E. Jones, copyright 1919. Courtesy of Stuart Kline.) “Strangers used to marvel — and still do — that...
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Lives of the Painters: Pele the conqueror
Popular Song by Pele deLappe, lithograph, 1935. Part II (In last week’s Part I, a 15 year old San Franciscan Pele deLappe found herself in Woodstock in the early 1930s, befriended by Diego and Frida...
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Robert Chanler: Over the top wasn’t enough
Robert Chanler screen depicting panther attacking white stag. In 1990, while first writing for this paper, I began “ghosting about” what was then called the “Woodstock Artists Association.” One...
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When Woodstock went Woo-woo and why
First Indian Nobel Prize for Literature Winner R. Tagore, visited Woodstock in the 1920s and pronounced “the entire village was filled with magical vapors…” Part I Author’s Note: Paralleling what the...
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When Woodstock went Woo-woo and why
Peter Blum Part II The meadows of a storied town prove hallowed ground, tho stone-cursed soil Soon found fair alternative rebound from farmers’ tool-a-blunting toil. First the paint brush, then...
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Final: When Woodstock went Woo Woo
Prologue We begin this final installment searching the roots of Woodstock’s mysticism, by seeking at least “a casual relationship” between Woo and Wee-ality by means of further Time Travel. So…back we...
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