Playbill

September, 1960

Aaron Burr has ceased galloping through the streets of Greenwich Village. Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Eugene O'Neill and Walt Whitman – Greenwich gadabouts of the past – are gone. Yet the Village – as Herbert Gold surveys it in his essay The Restless Mecca. leading of this September issue – is still the nucleus of American ferment. In Gold's view, there may be vanishing Villagers, but there is no vanishing Village. Ron Bradford's stunning diorama and Shel Silverstein's sly sketches assist Herb...