North Chatham Free Library (NCFL) announces “Flashbacks of a Flower Senior” with Author, TV Writer and Journalist David Felton
on May 18 at 3 PM
This Free Event is Located at 4287 Route 203, North Chatham 12132
Join David Felton as he describes his journey through the Cultural Revolution of the Sixties and Seventies while working for the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone Magazine. His first-person observations culminated in major stories on the Haight Ashbury, the Manson and Lyman Family cults, as well as the groundbreaking work of Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, Brian Wilson and Steve Martin.
Reflecting on his role in reporting on all these events and extraordinary artists, he said: “I feel the revolution, which arose from a deep spiritual vacuum in the country, spawned a great burst of creative experimentation in music, pop art, communal living, journalism, and uncensored language. It was art by and for the people.”
More about David
David Felton has spent his life experimenting with new forms of journalism and television writing. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his work at the Los Angeles Times covering the first Watts uprising. At Rolling Stone Magazine his five-part study of Charles Manson, including a pre-trial interview, won the National Magazine Award. He received acclaim for his definitive pieces on Brian Wilson, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Lili Tomlin, Bill Murray and cult leader Mel Lyman. He edited Hunter S. Thompson's seminal Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And he wrote a three-act play to document the Summer of Love.
For television, Felton wrote episodes of Square Pegs, A Different World, and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. He produced and wrote MTV: the Reagan Years for public television and, as MTV’s “oldest staff member,” helped develop the Beavis and Butt-Head show. In recent years, he created MTV Labs to encourage artistic experimentation by the employees of MTV Networks. The Labs motto was “a Safe Place to Suck.”
He is the author of Mindfuckers: a Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America.
Currently Felton serves as President of the Deep Listening Institute, a non-profit foundation that promotes the work of pioneer composer Pauline Oliveros. He lives with his wife Susan and daughter Grace in North Chatham, New York.
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