+* Vintage 1970s (2) Photographs Poet & Cult Personality Lester & Lilly Blackiston & Family

Vintage 1970s (2) Photographs Poet & Cult Personality Lester & Lilly Blackiston & Family

Lester, his mom & stepdad

1971-Lester’s mom, stepdad, daughter & 3rd wife Lilly 

Good condition

Lester Blackiston (1931-2007), poet & cult personality was one of the co-owners of Coffee 'n Confusion and a Beat Poet, known in Richmond VA and East Coast among artists, writers & poets. 

Lester was the epicenter of artistic literary activity in the late 1950s while living on Laurel Street near the Mosque, now the Altria Theater. Poems pinned 1959-1960.