Earth First! Festival Program
- SIGNED
- Salt Lake City , 1983
Salt Lake City, 1983. [14]pp. Octavo [22 cm] Side stapled illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Program for the Earth First! Festival the happaned at the Utah State Fairgrounds in Salt Lake City on August 14, 1983. Gary Snyder was the featured speaker. Includes a description of Earth First!; a short piece by Edward Abbey 'Here in Spirit'; poetry from Gary Snyder and Bart Koehler; illustrations from Jim Stiles; and the Deborah Lanner 'Canyonlands or No-man's Land? A proposed Nuclear Waste Dump Threatens the Park.'
"It was a helluva show," said one unidentified Utahan heading home in the rain after the August 14 Earth First! Festival in Salt Lake City. And indeed it was. Diverse. But one helluva show. The crowd of 300 at the Utah State Fairgrounds was less than had been hoped for, but the turn-out did not dull the audience or the performers. Musicians for the 8-hour long show were folksinger "Wobblie" Bob Phillips from Moab, rock'n'rollers Maggie Beers and Friends, Tophat, Liz Draper and the LZ5, country singer Hardin Davis, and, of course, Johnny Sagebrush and the Wild Goose Band. Poets included Art Goodtimes of Telluride, Jose, Simon Ortiz from New Mexico, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Gary Snyder. The speakers were rancher Cecil Garland, Ken 'Seldom-Seen Smith' Sleight, and master of ceremonies Dave Foreman. Although swelling afternoon thunderheads over the Wasatch Mountains may have kept some people away, they provided the high points of the festival. As Simon Ortiz was giving an Acoma Pueblo prayer to thunder, the huge black cloud rearing behind him happily obliged. When darkness fell, so did the rain. The audience scurried into a shed for protection just before Gary Snyder was scheduled." 'Earth First! Radical Environmental Journal' (1983/09/23). Presumed rare.
"It was a helluva show," said one unidentified Utahan heading home in the rain after the August 14 Earth First! Festival in Salt Lake City. And indeed it was. Diverse. But one helluva show. The crowd of 300 at the Utah State Fairgrounds was less than had been hoped for, but the turn-out did not dull the audience or the performers. Musicians for the 8-hour long show were folksinger "Wobblie" Bob Phillips from Moab, rock'n'rollers Maggie Beers and Friends, Tophat, Liz Draper and the LZ5, country singer Hardin Davis, and, of course, Johnny Sagebrush and the Wild Goose Band. Poets included Art Goodtimes of Telluride, Jose, Simon Ortiz from New Mexico, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Gary Snyder. The speakers were rancher Cecil Garland, Ken 'Seldom-Seen Smith' Sleight, and master of ceremonies Dave Foreman. Although swelling afternoon thunderheads over the Wasatch Mountains may have kept some people away, they provided the high points of the festival. As Simon Ortiz was giving an Acoma Pueblo prayer to thunder, the huge black cloud rearing behind him happily obliged. When darkness fell, so did the rain. The audience scurried into a shed for protection just before Gary Snyder was scheduled." 'Earth First! Radical Environmental Journal' (1983/09/23). Presumed rare.