The Golden Notebook is a full-service bookstore with a knowledgeable and accommodating staff. We are located in Woodstock, NY, a beautiful historic village nestled in the Catskill Mountains and part of the upstate region known as the Hudson Valley. Founded in 1978, the bookstore overflowed into the adjoining building ten years later to open a children’s bookstore. The Golden Notebook unites an intimate, casual, country atmosphere with the intellectual stimulation of a fine urban bookshop, reflecting the eclectic and eccentric nature of Woodstock.
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It's events like these that make our small town truly global. Woodstock Writer's Festival occurs Feb. 12-15. Meet, talk to, and learn from world famous as well as local authors during panels, readings, and workshops.
The Golden Notebook will there to moderate and sponsor book signings.
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
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Powell, Julie Julie &Julia, the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of 'Bridget Jones' meets 'The French Chef'" ("Philadelphia Inquirer"), is now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep--who just a Golden Globe for her performance.
Come meet Julie Powell, who wrote this book when nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."
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Title of Event: Woodstock Writer's Festival
When: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:00 PM Location: The Golden Notebook Description: Woodstock Writer's Festival is Feb. 12-15 and themed Celebration of the Memoir.
Special guests include Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief, Lazy Little Loafers), Ruth Reichl (Tender at the Bone, Not Becoming My Mother) and Julie Powell (Julie and Julia, Cleaving). Plus, Abigail Thomas, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Martha Frankel, and many other well-known authors, editors, and agents.
August 15, 1969. Richie Havens, the first act of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, takes the stage and welcomes a crowd of several hundred thousand to the green fields of Max Yasgur's farm--which is quickly becoming the second-largest city in New York State. People are dancing, imbibing, meeting, and helping the ever-increasing stream of new neighbors set up camp. Beyond the fields, the roads are jammed with cars and people, some of whom have been traveling for days to reach the festival site. Havens enthusiastically delivers folk-blues standards and Beatles songs, then begins to improvise, riffing on the refrain "Freedom." Freedom is at the heart of the harmony of this landmark cultural event--along with brotherhood, love, and peace. The next three days are the realization of months and years of dreaming and planning, the result of miracles and crises and coincidences.
The story of the festival begins with Michael Lang, a kid out of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, who liked to smoke a joint and listen to jazz and who eventually found his way to Florida, where he opened a head shop and produced his first festival--Miami Pop, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and others. In the late sixties, after settling in Woodstock, he began to envision a music and arts festival where folks could come and stay for a few days amid the rural beauty of upstate New York. The idea crystallized when Lang talked it over with Artie Kornfeld, a songwriter and A &R man, and with two other young men they formed Woodstock Ventures. They booked talent, from Janis Joplin and the Who to the virtually unknown Santana and Crosby, Stills and Nash; won over agents and promoters; brought in the Hog Farm commune to set up campgrounds; hired a peacekeeping force; took on fleets of volunteers; appeased the Yippies; and were run out of one town and found another site weeks before the festival.
On the ground with the talent, the townspeople, and his handpicked crew, Lang had a unique and panoramic perspective of the festival. Enhanced by interviews with others who were central to the making of the festival, "The Road to Woodstock" tells the story from inspiration to celebration, capturing all the magic, mayhem, and mud in between.
