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Walking Woodstock
Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town
by Michael Perkins
and Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom #1 Paperback Bestseller of 2009, Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY
The Pocket Guide to Woodstock
An Insiders' Guide with Suggested Hikes, a Walking Tour of the Historic Village, Maps, Photographs, and the Best Tips for a Memorable Visit
by Michael Perkins
and Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom #1 Paperback Bestseller of 2012, Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NYBooks
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“Are you familiar with the writing of Woodstock poet Will Nixon? If not, you should be because of his funny, wistful, poignant poems.”
-- Catskill Mountain Region Guide“The Hudson Valley has produced some of the great peregrinations of our time, most notably by John Burroughs, an inveterate walker. Add Michael Perkins and Will Nixon to the list—these are charming essays, some of them with a bit more bite than you'd guess.”
-- Bill McKibben
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Cannery Row on Tinker Street: The Poem
Earlier this week, I shared the story of a Woodstock artist worthy of a Cannery Row of Tinker Street should someone volunteer to write a fictional history of our town’s one-of-a-kind characters. Well, my friend George Drew has recast this … Continue reading
Cannery Row on Tinker Street
Every so often, you find yourself seated beside a great storyteller at a dinner party. When Rick Pantell heard that I was writing The Pocket Guide to Woodstock, he launched into a tale of a Woodstock artist from the generation … Continue reading
The Pocket Guide to Woodstock on WAMC
For the first (and perhaps only) time, The Pocket Guide to Woodstock has been reviewed between Haruki Murakami and Greg Allman. That’s quite a match up. But that’s Woodstock. Listen to Jackie Kellachan’s enthusiastic roundup of summer books on WAMC’s … Continue reading
“High Summer” By Ranger Dave
My quiet crusade in The Pocket Guide to Woodstock is to promote hiking in Woodstock. For a town covered with forests, Woodstock has surprisingly few marked trails. Visitors must feel frustrated by seeing so much green terrain, but finding so … Continue reading
Celebration for Pocket Guide to Woodstock, by Ann Hutton
(“Summer Celebration at Comeau Property to launch Pocket Guide to Woodstock” by Ann Hutton appeared in the June 28, 2012 issue of Ulster Publishing’s alm@nac.) How does one decide what to put in and what to leave out when writing … Continue reading
“A Walk on the Comeau” by Richard Parisio
(On Sunday, July 8th, Richard Parisio, a retired DEC interpretative naturalist who teaches at the Mohonk Preserve, will lead a “Family Nature Walk” for “kids of all ages” at 5 pm to conclude our “Woodstock Celebration” at the Comeau Property … Continue reading
Q & A with Woodstock Town Historian, Richard Heppner
Last winter, when I caught the history bug while writing The Pocket Guide to Woodstock, I discovered the town’s best attic, more properly known as the Historical Society’s archives housed upstairs in the Town Hall building. There’s a table where … Continue reading
Peace is the Woodstock Brand
(Here’s my “Walking Woodstock” column from the June 28, 2012 Woodstock Times.) You see some things a hundred times before you notice them. So it was with the Peace Pole on the Village Green, a modest wooden obelisk that must … Continue reading
Woodstock: The Golden Age Before Tie Die
We think of the Bohemian Twenties and the Rock ‘N’ Roll Sixties as the wildly colorful eras that made Woodstock famous. But Richard Heppner, our town historian, has chosen the late Forties and early Fifties, after World War Two’s Greatest … Continue reading →