(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 the 60's, Richard Fariña was on the cusp of greatness. He was married to a talented wife and had a newly published debut novel, but his life was cut short in the cruelest fashion. In Ardboe ...

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 ...

She had a groundbreaking folk duo with her husband, Richard Farina, in the 1960s but was perhaps best known for founding Bread & Roses in 1974. The organization produced 500 shows annually for ...