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920 Esmeralda
San Francisco,Ca. 94110
824-1576 home
648-8200 x552 work Tues-Sat
625-75

Mr. Charles Fracchia

Program Co-ordinator
The San Francisco Literary Experience
San Francisco Library

Dear Charles Fracchia:
Re the bi-centennial, and, the "Beat" period, I might be willing to offer some [[strikethough]] hlp [[/strikethrough]] help or materials later on. 

I was a part of that period, first as a poet, then a photographer, and, as a bartender at one of the central places-the Co-Existence Bagel Shop. 

I may be able to turn you on to the sources of material an information. In 1968, I conceived the idea for what became the Rolling Rennaisance , a celebration of underground art and poetry in the bay area 1945-68. With the donation of memorabilia and materials from those events, last year I established the Mark Green papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 

This year I assembled for the Focus Gallery here, "A Kind of Beatness, Photographs of a North Beach Era." It opens in July for a three month exhibition at Gotham Book Mart and Gallery in New York City. 

I am currently trying to complete a book of my own photographs of the Beat Era from 1957 to the present day survivors. 

Until that is done, I don't have much spare time for lengthy meetings, but I could refer you to some excellent sources and people around. 

Joe Sugg, Who was working at Golden Gate Branch would be very valuable, if you could get him involved. 

Prevail, 
Mark Green

P.S. Despite what respectable published books say- the first public reading of Howl by Allen Ginsberg was at the 1955 Art Festival. If you raise the bread for your project, it might be appropiate to bring Allen back for a re-enactment of that reading.

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