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Offered is 1972 telegram sent by noted rock journalist Al Aronowitz during his time covering the Grateful Dead. The telegram serves as a congratulations from Aronowitz and The Dead to a friend, writer Emmett Grogan, who was just married. It reads:
AL ARONOWITZ AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD SENDING YOU THIS TELEGRAM AINT NOWHERE NEAR AS FAR OUT, AS EMMETI GROGAN GETTING MARRIED. THEY WISH YOU LOVE, HAPPINESS, PEACE AND SUNLIGHT. SO DO I, WITH A BLESSING FROM MY FAMILY TO YOURS. MAY YOU HAVE AT LEAST AS MANY KIDS AS ALIASES AND NEVER WRITE AGAIN FOR UNDER A DOLLAR A WORD. SORRY I HAD TO MISS THEWEDDING. THIS HAS GOT TO BE A PRETTY GOOD SHOW.
AL ARONOWITZ.
Emmett Grogan was a founder of the Diggers, a radical community-action group of Improvisational actors in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Grogan's 1972 autobiography Ringolevio, a Life Played for Keeps, is regarded by some as the best and only authentic book written about the underground culture of the 1960s. The framed display includes an image of Aronowitz with Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia. It measures 23 x 16 inches.