Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Betty Beeby
Artist and illustrator -- via the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Designed and illustrated the beautiful second edition of Owen Barfield's "The Silver Trumpet" in 1968.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Don Yoder
Folklorist -- via Lancaster Online. Helped found the first folk festival in the country in 1951, and helped found the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Bob Johnston
Music producer; songwriter -- via Rolling Stone. Produced some of the great albums -- "Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison," "Highway 61 Revisited," "Sounds of Silence," "Blonde on Blonde," and worked with Leonard Cohen, Flatt and Scruggs, and Michael Murphey, to name a few.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Julian Bond
Civil rights leader; legislator, writer, commentator, poet, and teacher -- via the New York Times. The only civil rights leader ever to host an episode of "Saturday Night Live."
Jerome Miller
Justice-system reformer -- via the New York Times. He shut down Massachusetts's deeply dysfunctional youth reformatories.
Friday, August 14, 2015
Don Kent
Music scholar, collector, researcher, label owner, and writer -- via Crowe Mortuary. AKA Mr. Mamalish. One of the "Blues Mafia" in New York in the 1960s, he was an expert in blues and bluegrass, amassing an enviable collection and churning out very good liner notes and other forms of musical scholarship.
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