BY JIMMY IBBOTSON Jonathan McEuen is my calabash nephew. He grew up under my wing. When we made friends, he was a teenager, trying to live the life of a pothead poet, touring with his tight-assed, teetotaling dad, and my musical partner since 1969. One summer, much later, Jonathan brought his wife K’snia to Woody […]
ANIMALS AND MUSIC
THE PEACOCK PROBLEM
BY JENNIFER A. STROUP Anita Thompson had just begun the inaugural interview for this magazine when the phone rang, but George Stranahan, the subject, was used to this: the phone has loud rung loud and often at Owl Farm. It was Julie Hess, a caretaker and friend of Tom Klutznick, real-estate developer, philanthropist, and Owl […]
THE GOAT BOYS
BY JOHN OATES We’re not in a band together, but one fine autumn afternoon Jimny Ibbotson and I collaborated on a very special, albeit nonmusical, project. We got together to shear our Angora goats. I’m sure it was Ibby’s idea; he might say it was mine but he’d be lying. Perhaps the inspiration came during […]
EAT ME
BY ANN OWSLEY In the fifties, on our ranch in Woody Creek, my siblings and I were expected to spend our days outside: all dogs and children out the door. We were the newest addition the valley, my East Coast mother living out her lifelong fantasy of owning a ranch in the West. The only […]
