Author: womackr
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“They Won’t Bite, They’re Just People:” Bringing Blues and Folk to Reed
From the 1950s through the 1980s, a steady stream of talented blues and folk artists came through Reed College. With the folk music revival in the ‘50s and the blues revival in the ‘60s, there was no lack of skilled artists across the country. Reed drew in dozens of artists, from smaller local musician Mike…
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Poetland: The Work and Art of the Beat Poets
Tracing their roots to New York City and San Francisco a group of poets, known as the Beat Generation, were actively causing a ruckus during the mid to late 1950s. They were often thought to be a precursor to the 1960s counterculture movement and were interested in experimental drugs, the natural world, Zen Buddhism, and…
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Scratching the Surface: One Reedie’s Work with Vanport and the Girl Scouts of America
By Ronan Battistoni [Opal Weimer poses for a photo, circa 1940]1 This article draws from the Opal Weimer-Tice papers, a new addition to Reed’s Archives. Weimer was born in 1900 and grew up in the St John’s neighborhood of Portland before going on to receive her diploma from Reed College in 1922. After graduating, she…
