WOODSTOCK REVISITED

Susan Reynolds (Editor) has been a professional writer and editor for more than twenty-five years. Her recent nonfiction works include Everything Enneagram, Change Your Shoes, Change Your Life, Everything Personal Finance for Single Mothers, One-Income Household, and The Portable Italian Mamma. She is the creator and editor of Adams Media’s Hero series, which has three published volumes: My Mom Is My Hero, My Dad Is My Hero, My Teacher Is My Hero, and coming soon, My Dog is My Hero. Ms. Reynolds also co-owns Literary Cottage, a literary consulting firm in Boston, through which she has edited numerous nonfiction and fiction books. Learn more about her on www.literarycottage.com (click on the link in the right-hand column).

SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:

Lisa Law's documentary film, Flashing on the Sixties, won four major awards at film festivals and has been viewed on The Discovery Channel, Cinemax, and PBS. Her book by the same title is now in its fourth edition, and her newest book, Interviews with Icons, provides the complete interviews from her documentary. The Smithsonian and the Museum of New Mexico History collect her work. For more information, see www.flashingonthesixties.com. Lisa Law and husband, Tom Law, traveled to Woodstock with the Hog Farm commune and are frequently mentioned in Joel Makower’s book Woodstock, The Oral History.

Peter McAlevey has released twenty-four movies in his career, including Screamers, Shadow Hours, Klash, Flatliners, Double Impact, and Stone Cold. As a former Vice President of Production at both Walt Disney Pictures and Michael Douglas’ production company, he executive produced Radio Flyer and Hard Promises. McAlevey also spent many years as an internationally known journalist for Newsweek, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Businessweek, and Forbes.

John Bianco is an award-winning director with years of experience directing and producing numerous high profile network programs and news specials, multi-part documentaries, interactive multimedia titles, and sales/​marketing videos and DVDs. Documentary credits include: Adventures in Space with Leonard Nimoy, Disaster Chronicles, Portraits of American Presidents, America: A Look Back, and The Story of Washington, D.C.

Alan Kolman worked for Woodstock Ventures, Inc., with John Roberts, Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, and Joel Rosenman. He described the experience, thusly: “The holy hippie trinity of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll was the order of the day, and we were all getting ordained . . . Negotiations for venue and acts, rumors, and white powder drifted around everyone like dust motes.” He now resides outside Asheville, North Carolina

Rev. Prem Anjali, PhD traveled the globe as assistant to Sri Swami Satchidananda (the Woodstock Guru) for twenty-five years. She edited two biographies about Swami Satchidananda and produced the film, Living Yoga: The Life and Teachings of Swami Satchidananda. She is also the editor of, Integral Yoga Magazine. She was not at Woodstock, so relates his experience at the festival.

Michele Kadison is a dancer and actress whose performing career spanned stage, TV, and film throughout the US and Europe. As a choreographer she has created original work for many dance companies and worked as resident director for the American Performing Arts Theatre in Manhattan. She currently teaches “Jazz for the Stage” at Porton de Sanchez in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

D. Dina Friedman is the author of two young adult novels: Escaping into the Night and Playing Dad's Song.

Sandy McKnight is a musician, songwriter, and producer. In addition to having a “virtual” band, The Ragamuffins of Love, McKnight writes for television, and performs his music in concert venues. Sandy lives in upstate New York, where he runs a not-for-profit performing arts organization

Jeff Blumenfeld, author of You Want To Go Where?: An Insider's Guide to the Dangerous World of Adventures and Expeditions, manned the Civil Defense CD radio during Woodstock and later interviewed Max Yasgur while a student reporter for the Syracuse New Times. He now runs a public relations agency in Darien, Conn.

A COMPLETE LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS:

Barbara Greenough Acker, Rev. Prem Anjali, PhD, John Bianco , Jeff Blumenfeld, Robert Paul Blumenstein, Bob Brown, Edward D. Christensen, Louis Salvatore Denaro, John M. DeVoe, Bob Dickey, Francis Dumaurier, Jim Edwards, Peter Faur, Janine Fleury, D. Dina Friedman, Richard Gladstein, Geraldine Goldberg, Phaedra Greenwood, Linda W. Hamilton, Michele Hax, Dixon Hearne, Barbara L Heller, Catherine Hiller, Jeremiah Horrigan, Sandra Johnson, Michele Kadison, Brian King , Alan Kolman, Lisa Law, S. K. List, Peter McAlevey , sandy mcknight, Louis Mello, Scott A. Munroe, John Northlake, R.G. Nourse, Glenn Nystrup, Philip Pisani, Colleen Plimpton, Valerie Ptak-LaMont, Rozanne Reynolds, Susan Reynolds, Robert Rohloff, Michael Sciulla, Michele Starkey, Vinny Stefanelli, Yerucham Teitelbaum, Phil Vinall, Pam Crowe-Weisberg, Anita Lopez Winder