Weird Scenes Inside Cambridge, Harmonica History, Shadow Figures, & Folk Genealogies

[J Tracy]

Does someone  have a link to the photo ( "recently found picture")
 in question? 


Lyman’s role in that scene and his transit  from folk musician to domineering egotistic guru is sad and pretty fucked up. 
I did not care for the simplistic treatment/dismissal of the Incredible String Band in the article, but lots of information about a time teeming with creative life.. I heard Eric Von Schmidt at  17 in a little folk club in Bryn Mawr, PA.and got his album Who Knocked the Brains Out of the Sky later that year after we moved to California. I can still sing all the words to Hundred Acre Wood and most of the words to Beanum and Barley.  About 2years later was the first time I heard Mimi Farina . I liked her songs and singing much more than Joan Baez, had already listened to her album with Richard  a bunch. Read Been Down So Long about then too.  The energy and hopefulness of that time survives in a few places but seems to have less and less impact on the larger culture.  



> On Nov 30, 2025, at 3:46 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> We know, from the recently found picture, that TRP was at this famous
> festival.
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> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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>> Plus Pynchon and Fariña. Name of the Substack: Latitudes and Departures.
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>> https://lenaajit.substack.com/p/the-mirror-at-the-end-of-the-road
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