MONDAY,AUG.19,2002
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By Todd Smith Kansan staff writer
Avid bicyclists and nature lovers will be happy to know that Lawrence now has 17.2 miles of recreational paths.
"We made the trail around the perimeter of the park and the new parking lot to provide better access to Mary's Lake." DeVictor said.
Katie Son, Lawrence resident, said she found the new concrete trail easy to use, especially because she had a child in a stroller.
Fredrick DeVictor, director of Lawrence Parks and Recreation, said a new halfmile recreational path that could be used for walking and bike riding was available late spring.
"It is quiet and peaceful park, and I like that since I am from the country," she said.
The city also constructed a new parking lot at Haskell and 27th streets.
The path is a concrete walkway that runs from the Prairie Park Nature Center across Mary's Lake dam and then around the other side of the lake ending near a parking lot by Prairie Park Elementary School just off Kensington Road.
Sue Lane, marketing supervisor for Parks and Recreation said the last brochure had not been updated since 1999.
The new brochure will be available at Robinson Center, the Student Union Activities Office and at recreation centers throughout Lawrence in late August.
DeVictor said another path that was also completed last spring run along Kasold Drive and connected the South Lawrence Trafficway bike path to the Clinton Parkway bike path. He said this path was three-fourth of a mile long.
According to the 2001 Bicycle Annual Report there are 17.2 miles of recreational paths in Lawrence and 42 miles of bicycle routes in the city.
Lawrence has a variety of recreational paths, mostly made of gravel, that are used for walking and biking throughout Lawrence.
DeVictor said the marketing department was creating a new brochure this fall to show new recreational paths and opportunities in Lawrence's parks.
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Jenny Gleason, assistant professor of biology, enjoys a bike ride at the South Lawrence Trail. Gleason said the trail was conveniently located for her.
Bob Dylan returns to Rhode Island
NEWPORT, R.I. — Bob Dylan fans waited 37 years to give him a friendlier welcome to the Newport FolkFestival.
By Brian Carovillano Associated Press Writer
The legendary singer-songwriter last played Newport in July 1965, when he appeared onstage with an electric guitar for the first time, smashing barriers between folk and rock, and was booed by folk-music purists.
Whether the boos were for him or because of the poor sound quality — still a matter of intense debate — Dylan's three-song electric set that year has attained mythic status.
WPRL-TV in Providence.
But the times they have achanged.
"I can't think of anything he could do that would make me want to boo him this time," said Jack White, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter for
White, who was then a 22-year-old college senior, was among the folkies who jeered at Dylan the last time he played Newport. He even stormed off the festival grounds before Dylan was through.
Dylan's acerbic, at times sarcastic, protest-songs in 1965 captured the mood of America's increasingly disenfranchised youth during the Vietnam war and the civil-rights struggles.
"I've mellowed with age," said White, now 59. "I think you could probably say the same of most of my contemporaries."
At 24, however, he was maturing personally and artistically.
Earlier that year, Dylan released "Bringing It All Back Home," an album of both acoustic and electric songs. Just four days before Newport, "Like a Rolling Stone" hit the airwaves on its way to becoming an anthem for the 1960s.
Then Dylan and his new sound hit the stage at Newport, the sacred hub of the folk movement.
"Newport was definitely the most dramatic place to do it," said Dylan biographer Michael Gray, author of Song & Dance Man III. The Art of Bob Dylan.
"Everybody knew that he'd gone electric. It was there on the album. But the folk music establishment was hanging onto the notion that he was still one of theirs."
Dylan strode onstage late in the afternoon on Sunday, July 25, 1965, with a Fender electric guitar and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
They stunned the crowd with a raucous rendition of "Maggie's Farm," followed by "Rolling Stone" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." Dylan then came back for an acoustic set with "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "Mister Tambourine Man."
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