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NEWS Bronze life masks of Blake, cast by Aethelred Eldridge, are hung in the Church. These and plaster casts are available by commission on request. (...) Nebo, in Athens, Ohio, by Aethelred and Alexandra Eldridge. Meetings were held in their home until 30 acres and a derelict log cabin were purchased for this purpose in 1973. (...) Blake and from there, Aethelred Eldridge begins his unique and poetic renderings of the prophecies of Wm.

Photograph and text courtesy of the Athens News. Aethelred Eldridge operates a water pump on Sunday morning as friends and students look at the remains of his fire-destroyed church near Millfield. (...) “I feel the fire is an act of vandalism and was maliciously intended,” declared Aethelred Eldridge, founder of the church and an associate professor of art at Ohio University. (...) The vandals also struck a “cemetery” outside the church where Eldridge and his congregation had stuck painted white broomsticks as a memorial to what Eldridge described as deceased followers of the church.

NEWS THIS MAN READS BLAKE ALOUD Aethelred Eldridge, in a booklet decked out with excerpts from newspaper and magazine features on himself, his wife Alexandra, and their Ohio Blake place, Golgonooza, announces the following: I give a Public Performance: One Man reading through a range Of Blake’s Prophetic Books. (...) And you can reach us here: Golgonooza Aethelred and Alexandra Eldridge R.R. #1 Millfield, Ohio 45761 614-592-4254

NEWSLETTER GOLGONOOZA NEWS According to Alexandra Eldridge, there have been eight couples married and thirteen babies baptized at Golgonooza (in Millfield, Ohio). At the baptism of four babies on 24 October 1982, Aethelred Eldridge, “acting as Parson of the Church of Wm. Blake, and ‘aspersing lunacy and balming moon dew’ marked a ‘Broad appointed Arrow’ on the expanding foreheads of Sebastian Blake Eldridge, Maeve Elspeth Callahan, Aero Basho Nishimawva, and Brendon John Moran.”

Among the artists building the two-story structure that will house the scriptorium in Millfield are Assoc. Prof. of Art Aethelred and Alexandra Eldridge, proprietors of the Church of The Blake Revival; Daren Neglia, who has just returned from a nine-month stint as an apprentice in the Center for Book Arts in New York; architectural designer David Calahan; writer and illustrator Doug Lovelace and woodworker/ironcaster/jack-of-all-trades Nick Engler. (...) “We can’t get published by established commercial publishers, so we’ll do it on our own,” declares Alexandra Eldridge. The first project for the Golgonooza Press is the publication of a limited edition of one of Blake’s smaller works, such as the “Book of Los” or the “Book of Ahania,” and another edition of the notes group members have taken during the years of Aethelred Eldridge’s weekly Blake readings in the church.

GOLGONOOZA, OHIO AEThel- gRAM s or, Hammers StRuck in GolgonoozA by AEthelRed Eldridge — published by GolgonoozA, The Church of William BLAKE R.R. 1, MILLFIELD, OHIO 45761 — copyRight GolgonoozA 1928 AE 20-9-78 FRONT COVER | . (...) (TuRn to the BACK CoveR foR MoRe of the Scribe of ScRim, thin AuThoR of UpholsteRy Who Hails the Depth of SKIN — AETHELRED.)

, 108 pages, a book of poems by Æthelred Eldridge, $3 from the Eldridges at Golgonooza, R. R. #1, Millfield, Ohio 45761.

Veteran readers of Blake will have no trouble recognizing Balthazar (“a poetic Charles Manson” [146], according to Jane) and Helena (“the backseat type and capable” [146]) Boucher (as in Catherine Blake) as derivatives of Aethelred and Alexandra Eldridge of (the real) Golgonooza-on-the-Ohio, near the university town of Athens (Sparta in The Dick)—“Lincoln Log territory,” by Jane’s NYC standards.