As a former Oshkosher and current Washington Square square, I am happy to learn of this connection to the epicenter of American folk music revival. __________________ Mr. Block, who studied classical violin growing up in Oshkosh, Wis., was a self-taught sandal maker . . . . prone to setting aside his leather. . . to pick up a fiddle and jam with the folkies, mountain music makers and acoustic blues players who were wont to drop in . . . The Allan Block Sandal Shop at 171 West Fourth Street, was just a few minutes’ walk from Washington Square Park and from the Folklore Center on Macdougal Street, nytimes/2013/11/03/nyregion/allan-block-whose-sandal-shop-was-folk-music-hub-dies-at-90.html?_r=0
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:04:51 +0000
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