Epic Sweep in the ’70s

Epic Sweep in the ’70s

After reviewing Dan Armstrong’s “Eugene Trilogy” in Eugene Weekly’s Winter Reading issue, I learned of another Eugene author who just finished a similar trilogy. Guy Maynard, who quietly edited the University of Oregon’s Oregon Quarterly for 17 years before retiring, turns out to have been a troublesome campus radical at Boston University back in the early ’70s.  When the law cracked down hard, Maynard and his colorful cohort of “freaks” headed …