BEATS AND BOB (DYLAN)tour Greenwich Village has a rich literary
history going back to Thomas Paine, who penned Common Sense in a still
existing townhouse on Grove Street. A Washington Square South
boardinghouse was nicknamed "House of Genius" for the artists and
writers that lived there in the late 19th and early 20th century,
including: Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, O. Henry, John Reed,
Stephen Crane, and John Dos Passos. Mark Twain called the Village
home, as did Maya Angelou, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Edward Albee,
Djuna Barnes. TOUR GROUP LEAVES FROM Macdougal ALLEY just south
of west 8th st., on macdougal st. PLEASE ARRIVE 10 MINUTES BEFORE
SCHEDULED TIME CONTACT INFO@SAVETHEVILLAGETOURS.COM FOR GROUP
DISCOUNTS WALKING TOURS THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF FRED W. MCDARRAH
Greenwich Village walking tours like no other! See where history was
recorded by the original Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah -
the most curious, knowledgeable and defatigable chronicler of the New
York downtown scene over the second half of the 20th century! Before
the Internet, there was McDarrah. He captured all of the artsts,
writers, musicians and social movements that marked the time. Each
guest recieves a keepsake multi-postcard set of classic McDarrah
images and the tours go to the same locations to see how they have
changed, how they are the same, and to hear the stories behind the
famous photos. WWW.SAVETHEVILLAGETOURS.COM
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