![]() I might not have had the opportunity to interview Melanie Safka, Woodstock icon, who is still rockin' today. ![]() I might not have become a magazine columnist. Then again … had I been part of the vast crowd that welcomed Melanie, I would not have written my debut novel Forty Years Later-or the other novels in my David Grossman series. I could have participated in that signature moment, that epoch-defining event … if only I had dared. I'm twenty miles away in a Jewish bungalow colony in the Catskill Mountains, sitting alone in the middle of a dark softball field, bemoaning my lonely, outcast state.įor forty years I bore the hot shame of not going with my friends to Woodstock. ![]() Melanie Safka is a hippie hero & Always a prophet of peace.Ī young singer named Melanie is sitting alone in a small tent, waiting to be led to an elevated stage and introduced to a vast audience, huddled on a huge hillside for a three-day music fest. Miley Cyrus and Melanie at Miley's Backyard Session
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |