The Pocket Guide to Woodstock: An Insider’s Guide
by Michael Perkins and Will Nixon ’75
Bushwhack Books, 2012
Join Michael Perkins and Will Nixon, authors of the best-selling Walking Woodstock, for a personal tour of places they’ve explored on foot for years. Learn about the early Dutch settlers and witches; the bluestone quarries and tanneries; the bohemian arts colony; the historic hotels on Overlook Mountain; the concert that didn’t happen here; the sixties rock ’n’ rollers, including Bob Dylan and Levon Helm; the promoters and the eccentrics; the legends and the history that have made Woodstock world famous.
Will Nixon grew up in the Connecticut suburbs, spent his young adulthood in Hoboken and Manhattan, then moved to a Catskills log cabin in 1996— complete with a wood stove and mice. For years he wrote environmental journalism, then turned to poetry and personal essays. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed in Best American Essays 2004. He now lives in Woodstock, New York, with a wall thermostat for heat, but he still can’t get rid of the mice.