Happy 70th Birthday, Bob Dylan! Bob was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota. In early 1961, the man who by then called himself Bob Dylan moved to New York City and soon began playing in the Greenwich Village clubs, Gerdes Folk City among them. This Greenwich Village music scene must have been one of the luckiest, most creative places in American history: an incubator of genius. So many wonderful artists have come out of there: Dave Von Ronk, Joan Baez, David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Liam Clancy, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Eric Anderson, Judy Collins, and so many others!
One of the first songs I learned to play on guitar, back in 1968, was "Blowin' in the Wind." My favorite song of his to sing and play is "You Ain't Going Nowhere." I love so many of Bob Dylan's songs--what a national treasure!
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Regatta off Mentor Lagoons, Lake Erie
This blog is based in Northeast Ohio, what was "La Nation du Chat," the Cat Nation, as the French-Canadian furtraders called the Land of the Erie Indians. The blog will touch on many issues: nature, the environment, literature, poetry, society, and politics. Around here we think of the Lake Erie shoreline as the North Coast of the United States--a Frontier in the midst of the Rust Belt.
Sunset on Lake Erie
Regatta off Mentor Lagoons, Lake Erie
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- Trail Clearing in the Sangre de Cristo
- Carolan in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado
- Happy 89th Birthday, Dad!
- Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!
- My First Communion: 55 Years Ago Today
- Carolan in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
- Cincinnati Peacemakers (and John Leininger's Death)
- The Death of Peacemaker John Leininger
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About Me
- View from the North Coast
- I am a teacher of English and poetry as well as an intermediate learner of Irish, active in the Irish Language study group at the East Side Irish-American Club in Euclid, Ohio.