Cover artist: James Stevenson
Publication Date: July 20, 1987
Page Count: 92 pages
In this issue:The Talk of the Town Reunion by Tad Friend. Talk story about the Eckridges, the Gilberts, the Reids, and the Lewises who are branches of 1 black family which has reunited on the weekend nearest July 4th every year since 1979. Each year they move on to another city; this year, it was N.Y. for the 2nd time. A... Our Far-Flung Correspondents FIDDLING by Wallace White. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the Old Fiddlers' Convention in Galax, Virginia, old-time music, and a brief visit to the First Annual New York City Old Time Mini Festival... A mecca for the small but impassioned group of people in the Northeast interested in old-time music is Galax... Heat by Leslie Ullman. When we first arrived, nothing... Books by Terrence Rafferty. A Reporter at Large II-GETTING THE STORY by William Finnegan. REPORTER AT LARGE about South Africa Writer spent about 6 weeks last year with a group of black reporters on the Johannesburg "Star". Qwelane, who was writing two columns for the "Star", was at the time, the only black columnist writing regularly for white readers in S. Africa. He is... The Talk of the Town Bake Sale by Susan Orlean. Talk story about the auction of the effects of Lichtman's bakery at 86th & Amsterdam. Lichtman came to NYC from Hungary in 1938. He founded the bakery 40 years ago, after a 9-year stint at Mrs. Herbst's strudel shop, on 2nd Ave. Ever since 1947, when he started turning... The Theatre MOSTLY DICKENS by Mimi Kramer. Musical Events by Andrew Porter. Fiction Presents by Deborah Eisenberg. Cheryl and Carter are snorting Danny's cocaine in the men's room of a N.Y. restaurant. Cheryl admires the blue waves on Carter's shirt; someone gave it to him when he was shooting a film in Hawaii. Carter's been living on the West Coast for at least 5 or 6 years... Comment by Adam Gopnik. He has the oblique, diagonal eyebrows of Lillian Gish," said an artist friend who had been watching all week. "And that same American quality of always seeming about to burst into tears." He was speaking of course of Lt. Col. Oliver North, whose testimony before the congressional select committee last... Centennial Moore in Maine by Alice Quinn. Talk story about the poet Marianne Moore in whose honor a Marianne Moore Centennial Conference at the University of Maine at Orono was held last month. If Moore would have lived to be 100 years old she would have been so this year on November 15. Professor Carroll F. Terrell... Poetry The Star Story by Dan Ebalo. I wait... | 
