Mark Piepkorn
‘He touched a lot of lives. He changed mine.’
Gary Smith ‘was smarter, funnier, and more talented at almost everything than pretty much everybody, but he never held that over anybody’s head’
For me, “friend” is an elevated concept seldom bestowed. I don’t make friends easily. And then, being a socially inept dumbass, I’m not always a particularly attentive friend when I get one.
But somehow Gary Smith was one of my best friends. He was that for a lot of people.
‘The music was not just symbolic or entertaining’
Peter Yarrow talks about folk music as the soundtrack to civil rights — and its capacity to bring us together and move us forward
Folk-music icon Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, will bring his signature blend of music and social activism to the Bellows Falls Opera House on Thursday, Dec. 8. The 78-year-old musician caught up with Mark Piepkorn of WOOL in advance of the musician's visit with a wide-ranging discussion...