Dooby Lane

Guru Road (aka Dooby Lane) was created by DeWayne "Dooby" Williams (b. 1918, d. 1995). (Note that the [http://www.archives.com/1940-census/dewayne-williams-nv-11374066 1940 Census has him born in 1919)

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)
  • 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

• 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