I began creating this site in 1998 as an attempt to organize my personal "file
of dynamic trivia". Seeing how many Shep fans are out there,
I have decided to place it on the WWW for all to enjoy.
The purpose of this website
is the preservation of Shepherds works and to gather as much material as possible about Shep. Over the years Shep
wrote many stories, articles, and columns. He was on the air almost every
night for 20 years in New York, and made guest appearances on many other
radio and television shows. He did live shows at hundreds of colleges across
the country. The list goes on. Also, there have been many articles written
about him and events which can be linked either directly or indirectly to
him.
If you have any little
piece of information, be it an article or even a few minutes of crummy
audio, it might very well be the only copy in existence and should be
preserved. If you would like to share it with your fellow Shep fans, I'll
arrange for it to get up on the site. Many people have already contributed
things like photos they took at book signings, or articles from local
papers.
Anyone that would like to
contribute information so that we may all enjoy it, can contact me via
email.
Credit will be given.
I
don't wish to plagiarize anyone here and if I have done so, it is
unintentional. I have attempted to link pages to the actual sources wherever
possible. Please visit these links and browse further.
My thanks to
all those who have contributed to this site. Check the
Credits section for a
listing and the Fan Pages section for items from personal collections.
As far as the photographs and images on this
website, most are from private collections and are used with permission of
their owners. Please do not use ANY images from this site unless you check
with me first to obtain written permission from
the owners.
I
believe that I speak for all Shep fans in thanking Max Schmid of WBAI 99.5FM
New York for keeping Shep alive every Tuesday morning on Mass Backwards with
rebroadcasts and through his Schmidco catalog of Jean Shepherd tapes. While
I try to maintain an archive of as much Shep related material as possible,
Max has been doing the same with the audio. If you have any audio tapes of
Sheps shows or other performances, I highly recommend you contact Max. It is
important that these shows be preserved and Max makes every effort to do so.
Preservation of Shows
Many of Sheps shows are showing up in MP3 and Realaudio format. While these
are great formats for storing a lot of material and general listening, there
is a definate loss of quality in the compression. Please, if you convert
your old tapes to any of these formats, don't discard the original tapes. If
you no longer want them, contact me
or Max and we will arrange to get
them from you.
