Sep 6, 2021
Harry Smith, ethnomusicologist & cat's cradle string-game expert, this be Cat's Whiskers design. Weakening malnourished in NY Bowery Franciscan shelter, he stayed with me a few weeks, then we went together to Naropa Institute; as resident alchemist-philosopher he remained till his last year & trip to New York 1991 to receive a Grammy award for life-long advancement of American Folk Music. March 21, 1988, N.Y. (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg)
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