STANLEY LIVINGSTON 1941 - 2010 (PDF-1878)

It is with a sad heart that I report that my friend and well-known photographer Stanley Livingston, co-other of our recent book “Blues in Black and White: The Landmark Ann Arbor Blues festivals,” died yesterday of a heart attack. It was only last August 2010 that Stanley and I did our first (and it would seem only) book signing event in Ann Arbor for the new publication. Stanley was also scheduled to stop by my place for a visit on his way to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula later this month, where for most of his life he kept a cabin on a plot of land at the “absolute uppermost point in Michigan’s north shore” called “Dan’s Point,” so my brother and co-author Tom Erlewine pointed out when he notified me of Stanley’s passing. The U.P. was Stanley’s favorite place in the whole world and he used to spend three months a year there. I met Stanley back in the mid-1960s and