The Pocket Guide to Woodstock
Categories: Books, Travel, United States



Dimensions: 4.3 x 0.6 x 6.9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0988639874
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0988639874
Publisher: Bushwhack Books
Print length: 220 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2019
subtitle: Paperback – December 16, 2019
author: Will Nixon Loel Barr
review: Editorial Reviews Review Will Nixon’s lively, engaging, and thoroughly researched The Pocket Guide to Woodstock will delight all who explore the town, whether walking, driving, or relaxing at home. The new edition of this comprehensive guide highlights the sites where remarkable artists, musicians, writers, and theater people have flourished since the creation of the Byrdcliffe arts colony in 1902, but also directs us to colorful shops, restaurants, and places of worship frequented over the years by the likes of Bob Dylan, as well as everyday Woodstockers and visitors. The beauty of the landscape, dominated by Overlook Mountain, that originally attracted the art crowd, can be enjoyed today as Nixon guides us to eleven public sites for leisurely walks or more strenuous hikes. His book makes an excellent case for exploring Woodstock, despite the fact that some of its worldwide fame rests on the 1969 festival actually held in another town miles to the south. --William B. Rhoads, author, Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History & Guide Will Nixon’s The Pocket Guide to Woodstock is what the 17th century Dutch might have called a keekute —a “peephole” into one of America’s most fascinating towns. Be prepared to be dazzled! --Vernon Benjamin, author, The History of the Hudson River Valley: From Wilderness to the Civil War and The History of the Hudson Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times Will Nixon’s new edition of The Pocket Guide to Woodstock is a must-have for Woodstock natives and visitors alike. Combining both past and present, it will have you eagerly perambulating about Woodstock in search of our town’s treasures—just like Nixon himself. --Richard Heppner, Woodstock Town Historian About the Author Will Nixon is the author of The Pocket Guide to Woodstock and co-author with Michael Perkins of Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town , a collection of “Walking Woodstock” columns from the Woodstock Times . Both were #1 paperback bestsellers of the year at The Golden Notebook, Woodstock’s independent bookstore. Acrostic Woodstock is his town portrait in poems. Other poetry books include My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse and Love in the City of Grudges from FootHills Publishing. His poems have appeared in many journals, won several awards, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Once an environmental journalist, he was a contributing editor to the Amicus Journal published by the Natural Resources Defense Council and a special correspondent for the Adirondack Explorer . He also wrote for Mother Jones , In These Times , and other magazines.