Greenwich Village Folk Scene

Photographs by #DavidGahr

1) Folk singers in Washington Square, 1958
2) #EmmylouHarris, 1968
3) #JacksonBrowne, 1967
4) #MarcSilber, 1968
5) #TimBuckley, 1968
6) #BonnieDobson, 1964
7) #WillieDixon, 1960
8) #TomPaxton,1964
9) #TomRush, 1962
10) #PeterLaFarge, 1962

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The Gaslight Cafe

The Greenwich Village coffeehouse opened in 1958. Originally it was a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set in order to be paid. The cafe became a gathering place for beatniks, artists, poets, and folk singers with a large variety of performances.

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Was #Homer a real person who single-handedly created the #Iliad and the #Odyssey?

"The Classicist Who Killed Homer", The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/the-classicist-who-killed-homer).

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