Dooby Lane

Dooby Lane (aka Guru Road) was created by DeWayne "Dooby" Williams (b. 1918, d. 1995). (Note that the 1940 Census has him born in 1919)

Dooby Lane is located on the west side of Highway 34 about two miles from Gerlach. The road consists of a number of installations with words inscribed in stones by Dooby and others.

The proposed Gerlach Geothermal Development Project would be close to Dooby Lane.

Elvis with an antelope.

References

• Social Security Records for Dewayne A. Williams

• Dooby Avenue Restoration Project, April 19, 2003 (archive.org)

• Guru Road at The Center for Land Use Interpretation

• Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gary Snyder visited Guru Road and wrote: discovered a path / of carved stone inscriptions tucked into the sagebrush / "Stomp out greed." / "The best things in life are not things." / words placed by an old desert sage. Snyder went on to create a book based on Williams' words that included photographs by UNR students and faculty.
  • DeWayne Williams; Gary Snyder, "Dooby Lane: a testament inscribed in stone tablets by DeWayne Williams," Black Rock Press.; University of Nevada, Reno.
    • 1996, edition of 50 copies. (Image of book)
    • 2016 edition.
  • Rod Romesburg, "The Fractal Nature of Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End," College Literature, Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2010.

• Peter Goin, "The Outsider Art of DeWayne Williams near Gerlach, Nevada: "I am only one, But I am one..." Rock Poetry," Photograph, 1994.

External Resources

• https://www.californiadesertart.com/dewayne-dooby-williams-a-chance-meeting/

• http://www.alamut.com/past/0005.html#21

• http://renotahoe.about.com/od/bigeventspictures/ig/Black-Rock-Rendezvous/brr08_10.htm

• Greatbasinweb.com/gb1-3 (Dead link as of 2012-12-26, try archive.org)

• http://rarevisionsroadtrip.blogspot.com/2008/05/gettin-bugged-at-doobys.html

• http://www.nevadatravel.net/features/doobieroad.html

• http://en.sevenload.com/videos/P0yMIvm-Dooby-The-Guru-Of-Gerlack

• http://www.knpb.org/programming/local/the-big-empty

• http://cardhouse.com/travel/ccb/ccb12.htm

• http://backyardtraveler.blogspot.com/2007/01/getting-weird-in-gerlach.html

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/60005435%40N08/5482062697/in/photostream/ Elvis, 27 Feb 2011