“Is the Village Green Preservation Society:” Notes on Dylan, Memory, and Pilgrimages.

Rob Reginio, Alfred University

By Rob Reginio

And while ev’rybody knelt to pray
The drifter did escape

In my current place of residence, local history often is a form of misremembering or even erasure. For example, a marker in Lodi, New York commemorating the “expedition” of General John Sullivan in 1779 reads that he led ”[a]n expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checke…