A Perspective on Deadhead Philanthropy

Joop Rubens, Senior Director of Development, Library UC Santa Cruz, "Without love in the dream it will never come true," https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/without-love-dream-never-come-through-joop-rubens, consulted August 20, 2015.

Documenting the Dead

Nicholas Meriwether's Documenting the Dead is an amazing resource for all of us. Check it out, and make a donation to support the building of a great and true-blue American Archive at UC Santa Cruz.

Meanwhile, I'll be over here "Documenting the JGB" (also in Santa Cruz)!

Grateful Dead Studies

So Many Roads : The World in the Grateful Dead, A Conference & Symposium; Date: November 5-8, 2014; Location: SJSU Student Union.

Krieger, Lisa M. 2014. Grateful Dead: An early Silicon Valley startup. San Jose Mercury-News, November 7, 2014, URL http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26894788/grateful-dead-an-early-silicon-valley-startup, accessed 11/9/2014.

Sounds like a great event. Congratulations to Michael Parrish, Nicholas Meriwether, and all involved in putting this on and participating.

I hope the folks on the commercial end of the Grateful Dead universe continue to step up and fund the Grateful Dead Archive, patronize the arts and letters more generally. The public sector support for that stuff is disappearing, the rich-getting-richer are going to have to do it. C'mon, hippies, step up to the plate!