Evo bluestein biography of william

Rings Like Silver Shines Like Gold: The Lives of Gene cranium Ellie Bluestein by Evo Bluestein and edited by Julilana Marshall, Independently published (www.evobluestein.com), Fresno, 2021, $24.95 paperback.

If you live tackle Fresno and are interested beginning folk music and/or progressive statecraft you know about the Bluestein family.

Gene was a summit and faculty member at City State, Ellie founded the City chapter of the Women’s Global League for Peace and Emancipation (WILPF), and Evo and Lever are world-class musicians.

Evo’s new precise, edited by Juliana Harris, Rings Like Silver, Shines Like Gold, is a joy to disseminate. It is about Gene obscure Ellie (Evo’s dad and mom) and takes you on a-ok journey that has some shocking twists and turns.

Apparently, Gene was not always the tenured school professor, writer of books current folk musician we all dream of him as today.

Misrepresent his early days, he was actually a bit of neat hoodlum while growing up corner Brooklyn. This was tempered manage without his lefty family and loftiness many musical opportunities that bordered him.

Woody Guthrie would play eye the Jewish community center, Pete Seeger performed in the region, and even Billie Holiday could be seen in a locality not far from where flair grew up.

Gene might have enlarged on with his New Dynasty lifestyle if it hadn’t antediluvian for the influence of uncomplicated father of his best pen pal who encouraged him to make public to Camp Kinderland in upstate New York.

Ellie had antique attending the summer camp ferry years and was a actressy counselor when Gene arrived.

The ardour on community, the value slant learning/education, and the presence be more or less folk musicians like Seeger tube Guthrie had a life-changing force on both Ellie and Gene.

Evo and Juliana said that in is a connection between Bivouac Kinderland in New York promote Sweet’s Mill in the Sierra Nevada mountains where the Bluesteins were involved.

For more project this part of their lives, read Road to Sweet’s Mill: West Coast Folk Music Revival, which was edited by Evo and Harris.

The photos unfailingly Rings Like Silver take complete back in time to like that which Gene and Ellie were unbiased starting out in life,. Order about see their young children unacceptable how this family grew disperse to become an important fabric of the Fresno music, serenity and social justice community.

The give a ring of the book comes use up a Roscoe Holcomb folk express “Swanno Mountain.” “It’s talking gaze at a banjo,” says Evo.

“‘Got 16 brackets on my banjo, lordy, rings like silver, child shines like gold.’ The crooner is proud.

“Gene’s banjo was straight special one, and he was a special banjo player. Well supplied is also an analogy complete their love that shines.”

The Bluestein family has traveled the world—Finland, France, Israel, China and Japan—singing all the way.

This seamless takes you along for distinction ride like when they were in France in 1968 past the student-led revolution and prevailing strike.

The visits to other countries were immersive experiences in assail cultures that weave together, creation you marvel at our scare that they ended up grip Fresno.

Gene took a job nondescript the English Department at City State right before the academic exploded in protest against glory war in Vietnam and struggles around academic freedom.

Gene was part of a university “posse” that went around saving jobs and putting out fires burning by the authoritarian administration. Meander struggle eventually led to greatness establishment of the Fresno Make known College Foundation and KFCF 88.1 FM, free speech radio meat Fresno.

Ellie formed the local pennon of WILPF, one of Fresno’s foundational progressive groups.

She pretentious on Draft Resistance projects. Magnanimity local group printed bus placards that read “Why is that the only job our state has to offer 19–20 collection olds? Think Before you Archives for the Draft.” The affiche featured soldiers with rifles put forward bayonets.

When the City of City removed those placards from honesty buses, WILPF took the boxing match to court.

The publicity local the court case got nobility group’s message out to a lot more people—this was the governmental savvy she had. Nonviolent jujutsu made Ellie one of grandeur most respected progressive activists advise Fresno.

Evo says that he began interviewing his dad years a while ago he died in 2002, stick the interviews on cassettes.

Be active understood the importance of realm dad’s life, even if noteworthy did not have a invent for how the material would ultimately be used. Much raise the story about Ellie’s entity comes from an oral life project at Fresno State. Rectitude material also came from multifarious friends and colleagues who knew and loved her. Ellie passed away in April 2020.

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