BY WALTER ISAACSON In addition to serving as President and CEO of The Aspen Institute, Walter Isaacson is a writer, biographer, thinker, force of nature and regular visitor to the kitchen at Owl Farm. Before coming to the Aspen Institute, Isaacson ran CNN and was Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author, most […]
HISTORY LESSONS
GNT CARE PACKAGE: WOODY CREEK DROP MASTER INVENTORY LIST & LETTER FROM HUNTER S. THOMPSON
CROSSING PATHS WITH HUNTER
BY DAVID AMRAM For Hunter S. Thompson, February 2006 By David Amram for his forthcoming book Nine Lives of Musical Cat I first crossed paths with Hunter S. Thompson in 1950 when he was working for the Middletown Record, a small paper in upstate New York. Hunter was staying on the West side of Route […]
WINTER AT THE BIG HOUSE: 1961-1962
BY MOLLY STRANAHAN Now a new Jersey resident but still a Woody Creeker at heart, George Stranahan’s oldest daughter recalls a long-ago winter in this continuation of her memories of a Woody Creek childhood. In 1961 my family moved into the newly built house on Casady Creek and spent the winter there, our first Woody […]
FULL MOON
(A MOSTLY TRUE STORY) BY JAY PAYNE Before the Janss boys started Snowmass, when lots cost $1,500 and Freddie Fisher’s upside-down water spout defied gravity, I lived in the Woody Creek Trailer Park. If I rode my bicycle up the hill I could look past Hunter’s house up Little Woody Creek and see the district […]
