Photos from My Marin in the '70's

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These are the photos I've carried in a box from state to state and home to home for many decades.

Many of them are by the legendary Marin photographer Art Rogers, in the early days of his career and photo journalist Evelyn Eisen - both of whom I met in Marin and who still live and create their wonderful art there.  I thank them deeply for the eyes they gave me to see my life through time.

I'm returning to Pt. Reyes on June 22, 2013 for a concert at the Pt. Reyes Dance Palace

"Tap Happy" Hippies.

One year we decided to tap dance through the Pt. Reyes Livestock Parade singing "Don't Fence Me In." I'd had 3 tap-dance lessons, so I spearheaded the routine.

We dance on the bed of a flatbed truck and made it to the front page of the Pt. Reyes Light, with the caption "Tap-Happy Hippies" - you gotta love the home-town newspaper.

I'm the one with my hand over my face. From Left to right we're: Carol Friedman, Lia Graveson, Deborah Henson-Conant, Argh I suddenly can't remember her name, and Nancy Hemmingway.

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Dog & Girl

I always think of my dog, Emery, as noble though anyone who met him might think he was more a rambunctious, loud-mouthed pain-in-the-butt (oops ... am I describing me?). This is us in a quiet, noble, moment

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The Real Me

At the piano I loved, in the Dance Palace. This was the piano I gave my first concert of original songs on - years before I took up the harp.

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Photographer Evelyn Eisen

What 40 looked like at 19

This is me during a Palace Players presentation of "HotL Baltimore" portraying Mrs. Oxenham -- my idea of what a 40-year-old woman looked like.

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Photographer Art Rogers

Posing in
Pt. Reyes

I swear I never really posed like a WWII Era pinup wearing dungarees and a muffler ... but I guess I did.

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The Palace Players - Serious Actors

The cast of "Tom Paine" acting serious (but not seriously).

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Photographer Art Rogers

The Palace Players - Silly Actors

The cast of "Tom Paine" in a silly photo.

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Photographer Art Rogers

Happy Kid Me

Some happy moment or other when I seemed, unaccountably, to have freckles.

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The Love I Left Behind

When I went to study at Berkeley, the most painful love I left behind was Emery, my dog.

He's still one of the most heartbreaking memories for me - and even now my mind tries to figure out how I could sneak him into my apartment in Oakland although the time, the place and the dog are all long gone.

This was the - unsuccessful - poster I made to try to find him the wonderful home he deserved.

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The Judges of Tom Paine

Charlie Morgan, Sparks (Steven Sultan) and I in one of our several roles in the Palace Players' production of "Tom Paine."

One night the whole cast just started acted "weird" and spaced out right after this scene, and when I mentioned it after the show, Sparks said, "Well, when you skipped three pages of dialogue it kind of threw everyone for a loop"

"Oh, crap, I didn't even notice."

"That part was obvious."

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Photographer Art Rogers

Love Finds a Way in "Three Penny Opera"

Caesar Peters and I managed to quell our ongoing battle over dressing room cigarettes long enough to stage this love scene as Polly & Mac in the Palace Players' "Three Penny Opera."

Two minutes after this photo was taken we were s back in pitched battle over personal air quality issues.

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Photographer Art Rogers

Off the End

This is a romanticized and colorized view of the dilapidated pier off the back of my house on Tomales Bay.

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The Boat in my Backyard

This is the boat that I saw out my windows every day, seemingly abandoned - or maybe just never wanting to leave.

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