he was hardly the only one who drank himself to death in the village, and dylan thomas is another great poet who actually drank himself finally to death in midtown, but he did most of the drinking of himself to death in the village. with the depression, 1930s, the village is best known for its writers and artists who are markists or socialists. it's the red decade in the 1930s. if you were an artist or inteemght chewable in the 1930s, you most likely were a fellow traveler or member of the party, and it's just how people were at the time. it came back to haunt a lot of people in the early 1950 #s, but so the partisan review, a great literary magazine and was the platform started out as the organ of the party, the cpusa. the offices were on west 13th street, and for a long time in publishing, in newspaper and magazine publishing in new york, if you reject an article because the opinions were left wing, you said, oh, well, that was 213 street. [laughter] oh, pete segar come to the village in the late 1930s bringing folk music. there's a long history of the interaction of folk music in the