The Pocket Guide to Woodstock

by Will Nixon

Overview

A Walking Tour of the Historic Village, Local Hikes and Nature Preserves, The Story of the Colony of the Arts, As coauthor with Michael Perkins of Walking Wood-stock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America's Most Famous Small Town, a local bestseller. Will Nixon offers a tour of his favorite places that tell a strange and wondrous story. First settled by farmers, glass blowers, tannery workers, and quarry men, who made hard livings cutting forests and carving into mountainsides, the town later reinvented itself as a major artists colony that has given us a legacy of galleries and music venues. Not to mention the Concert That Didn't Happen Here. They're all here, the early Dutch settlers and their witches, the Sixties rock 'n' rollers led by Bob Dylan and Levon Helm, the Bohemian artists of a century ago, the Buddhist monks of today, the free-spirited visionaries drawn to Woodstock's scenic mixture of nature and the arts. Learn what has made this town so inspiring and so famous.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780988639874
Publisher:	Bushwhack Books
Publication date:	12/19/2020
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Welcome To Woodstock 1

A Brief History 5

A Village Walking Tour

Tinker Street 17

Rock City Road 61

Mill Hill Road 97

The Colony Of The Arts

Byrdcliffe 127

The Maverick 138

The Woodstock School of Art 147

Opus 40 151

The Spiritual Life

Karma Triyana Dharmachakra 157

Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount 161

Zen Mountain Monastery 164

Kehillat Lev Shalem Woodstock Jewish Congregation 168

St. Gregorys Episcopal Church 171

The Great Outdoors

Overlook Mountain 177

Magic Meadow 184

Mink Hollow 186

Cooper Lake 188

Zena Cornfield 191

Thorn Preserve 193

Israel Wittman Sanctuary 199

Sloan Gorge Preserve 200

Snake Rocks Preserve 204

Kenneth L. Wilson Campground & Day Use Area 206

Swimming the Sawkill 208

Acknowledgments 215

Editorial Reviews

Will Nixon's lively, engaging, and thoroughly researched The Pocket Guide to Woodstock will delight all who explore the town, whether walking, driving, or relaxing at home. The new edition of this comprehensive guide highlights the sites where remarkable artists, musicians, writers, and theater people have flourished since the creation of the Byrdcliffe arts colony in 1902, but also directs us to colorful shops, restaurants, and places of worship frequented over the years by the likes of Bob Dylan, as well as everyday Woodstockers and visitors. The beauty of the landscape, dominated by Overlook Mountain, that originally attracted the art crowd, can be enjoyed today as Nixon guides us to eleven public sites for leisurely walks or more strenuous hikes. His book makes an excellent case for exploring Woodstock, despite the fact that some of its worldwide fame rests on the 1969 festival actually held in another town miles to the south.—William B. Rhoads, author, Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History & Guide

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