On Wednesday September 25th at 6:30p.m, Professor Alexander Stille, the author of The Sullivanians : Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune, will present a program based on his book, a "narrative history of a little-known and singular chapter of the American counterculture." The story Stille tells includes details about the lives of the group’s founders, leaders and their followers which included bold-faced names such as Jackson Pollock, the art critic Clement Greenberg, Judy Collins and the dancer Lucinda Childs. The group's communes were on the Upper West Side, including one particularly active one located in a multi-story building on West 91st Streeton.
When: September 25, 2024 at 6:30 pm (EST)
Where: On Zoom and in person at the American Youth Hostel, 891 Amsterdam Avenue at 103rd Street in Manhattan.
The event is free and open to the public.
For a link to online presentation go to www.upperwestsidehistory.org
This event is co-sponsored by the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group (BNHG), the American Youth Hostels and the Columbus-Amsterdam BID.