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The charisma, humor and storytelling chops that made dave van ronk 19362002 a greenwich village legend are abundantly on display in this memoir, assembled after his death by longtime friend and blues historian wald. His active memberships include the municipal electric authority of georgia board of directors, active and immediate past president of the georgia municipal association, the mayor rsquo s council for public power, member of newnan coweta board of realtors, the university of georgia gridiron. It features encounters with young starstobe like bob dylan, tom paxton, phil ochs, and joni mitchell, as well as older luminaries like the reverend gary davis, mississippi john hurt, and odetta. Also download the mayor of casterbridge pdf and buy the book in hardcover at discount prices from amazon. New yorks one book, one new york campaign wants to get the entire city on the same page. The mayor of macdougal street by dave van ronk goodreads. Holding court in legendary venues like gerdes folk city and the gaslight cafe, van ronk wielded an influence so great that a stretch of sheridan square was later renamed dave van ronk street. Theres a decent quorum out there, in fact, each chronicling other city.
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