{"id":1757,"date":"2010-08-12T22:10:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T04:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2010-08-14T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:39:23","slug":"1757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"P.E.I. Bonewits 1949-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Isaac Bonewits, second from left, at a tree-planting in 1978.<\/p><\/div>\n

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All around the Pagan blogosphere, tributes are being written today for Isaac Bonewits, who died today.<\/p>\n

Here is a chronology of his life and tribute by Ian Corrigan.<\/a><\/p>\n

I can add only that he was one of the most prolific and visible figures of the Pagan revival from the 1970s forward.<\/p>\n

As a student, he took what had been a sort of spoof “Druidry” and turned it into a genuine Pagan religion with a spoofy name, the Schismatic Druids of North America.<\/p>\n

That in turn\u00a0 become Ar nDraiocht Fein (ADF), which is very much alive today.<\/p>\n

Druids are always associated with trees, and the photo is one that I took in January 1978 at a tree-planting at “Annwfn,” part of Greenfields Ranch, near Ukiah, California.<\/p>\n

From left, Isaac’s then-wife Selene Kumin vega, Isaac (leaning on his hoedad<\/a>), Morning Glory Zell, someone obscured (possibly Gwydion Pendderwen), and would that be Oberon Zell with arm outstretched?<\/p>\n

I am glad that I was able to offer Phaedra some help in finding a home for his papers. Although I did not see Isaac often, we were always friends at a distance, and I shall miss his presence on the Pagan scene. Ave atque vale<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All around the Pagan blogosphere, tributes are being written today for Isaac Bonewits, who died today. Here is a chronology of his life and tribute by Ian Corrigan. I can add only that he was one of the most prolific and visible figures of the Pagan revival from the 1970s forward. 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