ISRAEL YOUNG SPENDS TIME WITH OLD FRIENDS IN NEW YORK

A couple of days before Izzy went 

back to Sweden,

Izzy and I went downtown for lunch with our friend and former

roommate of Ratso and Phil Ochs,

Dave Peller.

Then Izzy and I walked through Washington Square

for old time's sake.

Then we enjoyed what became the highlight of his visit:

the intimate concert held 

June 22nd at the 

Museum of the City of New York.

It was the first in a series of events

celebrating the FOLK CITY exhibit 

on display until November.

Happy Traum announced Young to the crowd 

saying ''one of the people that made all this possible, Izzy Young!''

just one of the guys on Sullivan

reflecting

Green room dining

Jane Traum, Izzy and Happy Traum

Music organizer, Doug Yeager on left
Curator Stephen Petrus at the mic

Izzy writes

''This is fucking fabulous!!''

IZZY YOUNG TERRORIZES NEW YORK...AGAIN

 Thanks to the fancy legwork of our friend David Peller, The Wizard of Iz landed safely on a couch somewhere in SOHO. An elevator detour found 4 of us standing in a car made for 3 with Ratso Sloman. Izzy makes a good house guest, I have discovered. Give him cheesecake for breakfast and chocolate for lunch. Truly, he's been eating well and reporting back to his adoring daughter.

He's here for the BIG exhibit fundraiser going on in a couple of days at the Museum of the City of New York. More on that absolutely, sure fire, can't miss happenin' good frolic later...

I'm honored to be his first host on this trip. He's here for 6 more days! What kind of trouble can we get ourselves mixed up into, I wonder....? Well, given our esteemed position (Dave and I), we've helped Izzy to be more at ease with his 4 minutes of FAME that he's been flown here to deliver. Nudge nudge here. Copy and paste there. Izzy had the right idea, large print makes it better.

Izzy will likely help close the show with his poignant prose and witty delivery. If you can get tickets to go, you should. And that's all I'm saying.

To answer your question, 'yes' those cookies are laced with hashish

A.L. should drop dead

Wrinkles are so 'now'

You left your whitefish in the ice box!

MORE F*CKING COOL PICTURES FROM IZZY YOUNG'S TRIP TO NYC

IZZY YOUNG recently came to NYC to do interviews for my documentary on Mike Porco and Gerde's. Folk City began as an idea in the minds of a stranger named Tom Prendergast and Israel Young. It was called "The Fifth Peg" for the first 5 months of 1960. Izzy is the only man on earth that could tell me the story. And in the end, he taught me a ton more about bricklaying.

I knew he was no schmuck right away, partly cuz he said so
(photo Dave Peller)

A lovely walk with my friends Terri Thal and Izzy. Beautiful people

Laughing one's ass off

Izzy smells a fucking rat

self portrait

Tracey Grisman sketch at brunch

stills from the formal interview

Dave Grisman and Izzy at the Folklore Center's last location on 6th

Izzy not letting Happy go 

Getting the scoop at the scene of the crime, 4th and Mercer

Talking man-to-man
(photo Jack Hirschorn)

Interview with Journalist Frank Beacham
(photo Jack Hirschorn)

Still on 4th and Mercer

(photo Jack Hirschorn)

A still from the video footage
Jane, Happy and the Wizard of Iz

"The Pink Penguin?! What the fuck?"