Albany NY Archives

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 15

June 20, 2020

On Becoming a Hippie #15 – Kansas City Here I Come https://www.earthtrekkers.com/how-to-visit-gateway-arch-national-park-st-louis/ We stayed one night in Yellow Springs, Ohio where Debbie and Steve, our traveling companions, would stay for a visit with their friend. Getting to Kansas City from Ohio should have been pretty easy. It was only about 9 hours away, though we […]

Reminiscing and Forecasting with Al Kash

Staff

June 8, 2020

Al Kash is one of the Capital Region’s iconic musicians but as you may know, he didn’t get his start here. Today Al was kind enough to take time out of his quarantine to chat with us about his career path and what he’s got cooking on the burners. RRX: So how you been? AK: […]

The Yamaguchie Splash

Staff

June 8, 2020

It can be said that we will never renew the beauty of the world until we can recognize the beauty and purpose of even what we throw away. And it’s the creative innovators among us who, day in and day out, determine that one man’s trash is their treasure. Is this the one who fixes […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 12

Staff

May 23, 2020

We were incredibly happy living in Santa Cruz. We’d finally found a place that felt like home. However, that soon changed. I’ve always had prophetic dreams. I’ve often dreamed about people’s deaths at the time that they are dying. I’ve also gotten warnings in dreams about things that were avoidable. It’s been both helpful and […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippe – Chapter 11

Staff

May 16, 2020

http://goodtimes.sc/cover-stories/earthquake-walking-tour/ In addition to driving or hitchhiking to San Francisco for music, there was plenty of music right near our home in and around Santa Cruz. The center of activity was the Pacific Avenue pedestrian mall. This was the major hangout spot. There was always music there. There were always buskers (street musicians). I once […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 10

Staff

May 9, 2020

One of the best things about living on the west coast in the 1970’s was the music. We saw the best shows there. Paul and I had been “Deadheads” for a while before making it west. So far, we’d only seen east coast shows. The Grateful Dead was a San Francisco band. We didn’t follow […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 9

Staff

May 2, 2020

While living in Santa Cruz, we met all kinds of unique characters. There was a hippie couple with a baby girl very close in age to our daughter. Jewel and I became new mom companions. We were both young and newly settled there and were both staying at home with our babies while our partners […]

Deb’s Sunday Psychedelica

Deb Cavanaugh

April 12, 2020

We soon got tired of the first apartment we were in. It was certainly nicer than anything we’d lived in together before that, but we didn’t like being in a complex. We had some new friends who asked us if we’d like to rent a house together, so we moved a little further from downtown […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica (Double Feature!)

Deb Cavanaugh

March 28, 2020

Feature 1. While living at Project One, we met some of the most interesting and eccentric people I had ever known. First, there were the folks living in the mini-commune known as “The Estates” where we stayed. Fred was a metal worker/engineer and was currently building an airplane from found parts in his large basement […]

Some Help Bringing In the Spring

Sassy Auburn

March 9, 2020

Soon, the cold temperatures of winter will give way to warmer, sunnier days of spring. Can I get an “AMEN!” up in here? It might not be great at first with some lingering remnants of the cold, bitter season but it is a glorious time of year bursting with possibilities for embracing what is new. […]