Re: FB link, pic of Maria Muldaur, Richard & Mimi Fariña, with it’s gotta be TRP

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 12:07:36 UTC 2024


>From finished manuscript to publication takes nine months normally...

So, July 65 is nine months from the publication month of The Crying of Lot
49....

Yes, he might have visited Lippincott's offices or his editor somewhere....

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 4:32 AM matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
>  Newport, July 1965.  This is mentioned in David Hajdu's "Positively
> 4th Street". On page 210 he writes, "In 1964 more than 70,000 people
> bought tickets to see Baez, Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Johnny Cash,
> Judy Collins, Mississippi John Hurt, and some fifty others. If Joan
> was still the most famous, Bob now had the most respect. This year
> Baez performed on the festival's first evening, as Bob had a year
> earlier, and Dylan was granted the climatic closing-night slot."  The
> photo that has who we think may well be Pynchon, is almost certainly
> not the same day that Dylan played his famous electric set. Fariña
> does have that cool hepcat aura, doesn't he?
>
> Upon closer inspection I see that TP is not holding a camera but
> rather appears to have his thumb hitched into his pocket.
>
> I came across a webpage that some of you may already be familiar with,
> it's dedicated to the Fariñas.
> (https://farinafiles1.tripod.com/id22.htm ) It provides some detail
> that helps make sense of the various photos. However, there are some
> bits that just don't line up. Still, it does have a small pic that
> seems to be from the same Gahr series though I don't remember seeing
> it in Getty images. It is of the same group but from directly in
> front; you can see the tall fellow standing to the right of Richard
> Fariña. Sadly, when the size is augmented it becomes  too blurry to
> distinguish very much.
>
> So Pynchon would see his novella published in April of the following
> year. What else did he do while on the East Coast? Meet with the
> publisher? Visit his folks or other friends? Maybe go see some jazz?
> And how was he getting around? Did he fly out, or take the train? Or
> even drive?
>
> Ciao,
> mc otis
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 11:27 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > this the one you're referring to?
> >
> >
> https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/legendary-record-producer-paul-rothchild-and-singers-mimi-news-photo/151860228
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 12:01 PM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/197624643745929/permalink/2877559252419108/
> > >
> > > Looks like he was enjoying the afternoon
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