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Jack Loeffler (2017-05-06)
About this film
This week's guest on "Report from Santa Fe" is Jack Loeffler, author, oral historian, and editor (with Meredith Davidson) of "Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest," a book of essays, poems, and photographs from the men and women who lived during the New Mexican counterculture movement. The book’s release coincides with the upcoming exhibit of the same name which opens at the New Mexico History Museum on May 14, 2017. Although the counterculture movement of the sixties may be over, Loeffler believes that it has lasting implications within our society today, one of the most significant being the environmental movement. Studying the New Mexican counterculture also offers guidance for our current political climate: “This volume of essays provides the perspectives we need to repair our relationships with each other and with the planet,” says Loeffler. “But, more importantly, these voices from our not-so-distant past impart the inspiration we need to take action - now.” Jack Loeffler was awarded the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and was declared a Santa Fe Living Treasure. "Loeffler is a National Treasure who is revered in his field from the Folklore Center at the Libr…
Directors & creators
KENW-TV, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Jack Loeffler, Lorraine Males, Meredith Davidson, Edward Abbey, Celeste Loeffler, Carolina Juá, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, Stewart Udall, Lee Udall, New Mexico History Museum, National Education Association of New Mexico, Healey Foundation, Counterculture movement, Environmental movement, Ethnomusicology, Atomic bomb testing, Navajo history
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