On January 3, 2017, John Van Beekum, editor of the 1977 Austin Book of Days appointments calendar, began to re-issue the images on Instagram. He began with the published 1977 cover with Stanley Farrar’s Lake Travis image. Click here or the photo to visit John’s page on the Instagram site.
Links to the individual images are below.
John has been posting the images on Instagram. Also, I shared them on my Facebook page.
To see the Instagram posts up-to-date, search Instagram for #1977AustinBookOfDays. (These look best when viewed in a web browser on a desktop computer.) If you have never signed into Instagram, you can do so with your Facebook account. To see the Instagram posts as they appear, follow @jvb723. Please feel free to Like/Comment/Share any of the 1977 pages on Instagram and FaceBook, if you are so moved.
By the way, we are not posting scans of original images, just copies of the duotone images as printed with Ave Bonar’s calligraphy and the binding punches.
Sadly, six of the 1977 group have passed away: Russell Lee, Jimmy Jalapeeno (aka Jim Bonar), Reagan Bradshaw, Nancy Jane Reid, Michael Contristano and Wess (no last name). If any of the missing photographers listed below have passed away, please let me know.
We do not know the whereabouts for some photographers. If you’re in contact with C. J. Simmons, Marty Friedman, Mark Johnson, William Lamar or Harry Boyd, please let me know or ask them to contact one of us.
Here are the photographers. Again, to see the photos, find jvb723 on Instagram.
Cover-Stanley Farrar
Acknowledgements-Rene Perez
0-Linda Kerr (now Linda Hardy)
1-Nancy Goldfarb (now Nancy LeNoir)
2-Kent Kirkley
3-Margaret Harman
4-David Woo
5-Marlon Taylor
6-Michelle Campbell
9-Rick Patrick
10-Maggie Steber
11-Phyllis Frede (now Phyllis Patrick)
12-Hayes McCauley
13-Nan Blake
15-Christy Ott (now Christy Stebbins)
16-Rick Williams
17-John Douglas Bowles
18-Bill Wittliff
19-Mike Fluitt
20-Bill Gibson
21-Phil Dunn
22-Larry Scaaf
23-Zach Ryall
24-Ed Malick
25-Melinda Wickman (now M. A. Swearingen)
26-Nicolas Russell
28-Larry Murphy
29-Rodney Florence
30-Tomás Pantin
31-Danny Schweers
32-Rob Ringle
33-Bill Records
34-Frank Armstrong
37-J. B. Colson
38-Ann Matlock
39-Jim Wood
41-Robert Haslanger
42-Randy Ehrlich
43-Phil Huber
44-Jay Godwin
45-Scott Newton
46-Richard Griffe
48-Alan Pogue
50-John R. Van Beekum
52-Belmer Wright
Notes-1-Michael Penn Smith
Notes-2-Russell Lee
Notes-3-Carol Hayman
Notes-4-Ave Bonar
Notes-5-Nancy Keeler
BackCover-John Christian