(Or, in the saddest cases, both.) I WAS a half-hearted folkie back in 1965, when the first Richard and Mimi Farina album, Celebrations for a Grey Day, came out. Although it was later chosen by ...

In 1966, the American novelist and musician Richard Fariña seemed on the cusp of greatness. The New York-born son of an Irish mother and a Cuban father, he was a charismatic writer, singer ...

“To Athene then. Young Gnossos Pappadopoulis, furry Pooh Bear, keeper of the flame, voyaged back from the asphalt seas of the great wasted land: oh highways U.S. 40 and unyielding 66, I am home ...

He is almost forgotten now, but 50 years ago Richard Fariña seemed poised for fame. The only issue was whether he would follow a literary or a musical path to success. The New Yorker was a rising ...

Richard J. Farina, retired CPD; Dearest husband of Patricia (nee Chryssikos); Loving son of Rose (nee Torina) and the late Louis Farina; Beloved son-in-law of the late Nicholas and the late ...

Richard D. Farina Richard D. Farina, 97, of Wyomissing, passed away January 19, 2021 at Country Meadows, Bethlehem from complications of COVID 19. Born in Reading, he was a son of the late ...

The group broke up the same year, reunited in 1992, made four albums between 1993 and 1999 with varying lineups, then waited until 2015 to record its latest release, “Reinventing Richard ...