In Washington Square Park, in Greenwich Village, she encountered like-minded friends who were also politically active. Her childhood was turbulent, but Suze found solace in poetry, art, and music. Growing up at the start of the Cold War and during McCarthyism, she inevitably became an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in the ring with him.Ī shy girl from Queens, Suze Rotolo was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists. "A Freewheelin' Time" is Suze Rotolo's firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster.
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