Post by treetophigh on Oct 6, 2015 11:39:18 GMT -7
He was the head of collections at the Chicago Field Museum. He was a Deadhead and was reported to have died suddenly on an expedition to Ethiopia.
"More than anything this is going to be a celebration of the whole Grateful Dead thing, the camaraderie, the outlook of life," said Bill Stanley, who is a director of the Gantz Family Collections Center at the Field Museum.
He's attended more than 100 shows, including Garcia's last one. He not only recalls those "magical" experiences, but the loneliness he felt when he was in the mountains of Tanzania in August 1995 and received an airgram from his girlfriend that read, "I hope you are sitting down. We lost Jerry."
"Everybody here was able to call the person who turned them onto the Dead (but) I had no one to reach out to," he said.
This weekend, though, he expects all those old feelings a Dead concert used to elicit to return: "People are going to be walking past, thinking, 'Look at those old hippies. I'll be grateful when they're dead.'"
www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2015/07/grateful_deads_fare_thee_well.html
"More than anything this is going to be a celebration of the whole Grateful Dead thing, the camaraderie, the outlook of life," said Bill Stanley, who is a director of the Gantz Family Collections Center at the Field Museum.
He's attended more than 100 shows, including Garcia's last one. He not only recalls those "magical" experiences, but the loneliness he felt when he was in the mountains of Tanzania in August 1995 and received an airgram from his girlfriend that read, "I hope you are sitting down. We lost Jerry."
"Everybody here was able to call the person who turned them onto the Dead (but) I had no one to reach out to," he said.
This weekend, though, he expects all those old feelings a Dead concert used to elicit to return: "People are going to be walking past, thinking, 'Look at those old hippies. I'll be grateful when they're dead.'"
www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2015/07/grateful_deads_fare_thee_well.html
