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New York Green Fest

If you're lucky enough to be near beautiful Allegany County, New York, over the weekend of August 7-9, drop by Alfred University to check out the New York Green Fest (http://nygreenfest.org). I'll…
Bill Kauffman
July 23, 2009

If you’re lucky enough to be near beautiful Allegany County, New York, over the weekend of August 7-9, drop by Alfred University to check out the New York Green Fest (http://nygreenfest.org). I’ll be speaking Sunday morning. The main organizer is the indefatigable Rachel Treichler, Green Party activist (recipient of the best vote I’ve ever cast for NY Attorney General) and daughter of Bill and Martha Treichler. Mildred Loomis, the “grandmother of the counterculture,” wrote up the Treichlers as the model multigenerational homesteading family in her Alternative Americas (1982).

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A stack of three Local Culture journals and the book 'Localism in the Mass Age'

Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Henry Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), Look Homeward, America (ISI), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books). His next book, Upstaters, is due from SUNY Press in 2026. He is a columnist for The American Conservative and The Spectator World. Bill wrote the screenplay for the 2013 feature film Copperhead. He is a founding editor of Front Porch Republic and has served as a legislative assistant to Senator Pat Moynihan, editor for various magazines and publishers, and vice president of the Batavia Muckdogs, a professional baseball team that was euthanized by Major League Baseball. He lives with his wife Lucine in his native Genesee County, New York.