Here is what I just learned from Mitchell Stephens’ lively 1992 profile on Stephen Greenblatt.
“In summer camp Greenblatt used to strum guitar with a sweet-voiced, curly haired, blond kid who would go on to fame as part of another duo----this one with Paul Simon.”
I have also been wondering where Greenblatt got his family name and the answer is now given; his grandparents were Lithuanian-Jewish.
Lithuania has a big sand dune. I don’t really know why but two countries I’d like to visit someday are Lithuania and Armenia, both countries of prodigious children scattered around the globe.
