Dr. Seth…Master of Incense - September 30, 2010

MOM: “Seth is an incense connoisseur! It’s an amazing thing that Seth can
think a fragrance, analyze a person's fragrance vocabulary and develop lines
of fragrance for them. This is why our incense list is a work in progress
since 1988…and Seth is still working on it. Because this topic is so
diverse, we will soon begin spotlighting video blogs about incense, so that
people can best learn how to "experience" these fragrances for themselves.
Stay tuned!"

SETH: Mom will tell you that my sense of fragrance is genetic…the fact that
I can think fragrance and flavor and that talent comes from my dad, who was
a cosmetic chemist. I don’t know how much of that is true, but it just
happened. It may be nature derived, but not from nuture. I’ve been using
incense before I should have even been messing with fire. There’s a certain
visual aesthetic about it… the smoke. It’s about adding fragrance to your
environment, not yourself. it's a completely different thing because it's
not about 'you', it's about where you are. It’s culturally different.
Westerners didn’t appreciate incense because they associated it with drug
culture here, but in other countries it's hospitality. In eastern culture,
it is used in offices, banks, etc. as a way to welcome people. I wasn't
raised to use it as a spiritual thing. It’s just something that filled the
room and I can enjoy, no matter what I'm doing.

I have insidiously realized that different scents do different things. My
initial choice of fragrance was not on conscious level. One can become
overwhelmed by choices...the more you think, the less you do, so it’s best
to just make a choice and try it out for yourself.

I did become more aware as I started to recommend fragrances to people.
Everyone's experiences are different and to recommend a fragrance, one must
look objectively at it. There are some that I don't like, but they are
objectively excellent fragrances, provocative and constructed well, etc.
It’s like a wine connoisseur, it’s a skill I’ve acquired to identify
quality. I understand the nuances of a fragrance, even if I don't like it,
but you hope you can key in on some characteristics that will help determine
what others might like or don't. The only thing that holds me back from
adding to our incense list..it’s not lack of energy...it’s the careful
though and time to analyze and describe them. Some you can’t explain. Those
need t be experienced. There are simply some fragrances that defy
description

As much as I can analyze, describe or recommend a fragrance, it is something
that people must really “experience” for themselves.


Hundreds of wonderful fragrances from all over the world are available to
choose from including the most popular and sought after Shrinivas
Sugandhalaya line of Nag Champa varieties, most notably the classic blue box
edition. Plus Shrinivas Sugandhalaya’s Satya Sai Baba incense varieties: Satya
Superhit, Satya Natural, Satya Royal and Satya Patchouli Forest. Other top
companies we carry also: H.E.M. Flora series, Shrof Company, Shoyeido,
Nippon Kodo (Japanese Incense), Tribthon Kunsel (Tibetan incense), Himalayan
Bundle (Tibetan incense) and Fred Soll…just to name a select few.

Individual fragrance varieties are always a good start for the novice.
Woodstock Trading Company carries Kasturi Chandan, Jasmine, Rose, Patchouli,
as well as so many other scents to experience. Resin incense blends:
Frankincense, Dragon’s Blood, Copal, and the unusual and rare White Wing.
The contemporary world offers an array of Rock-n-Roll inspired themes in
incense: Grateful Dead variety packs, Bob Marley variety packs, Pink Floyd
variety packs.

Woodstock Trading Company includes an incense sample with every internet
order that leaves the store. And, you can come in to the store and get a
sample to try, as well. Or, just email us at wtc@woodstocktradeco.com for
a free incense list and incense sample. You can sign up for our Newsletter
which always includes Dr Seth’s “Incense Pick of the Month” for
recommendations, as well.

Check out Woodstock Trading Company’s Incense Page for more information on
what we offer. If you don’t see something you like on our website, call the
store, as we may very well carry it and have it in stock. If not, Seth can
certainly recommend something complimentary for you to try.

Woodstock Celebrates Jerry Garcia and our 22nd Anniversary on August 1st – August 4, 2010

A good time was had by all at our 22nd Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, August 1st. Although “Sugar Magnolia”, an original 1960’s Rock & Roll tour bus, was unable to make an appearance due to the threat of rain, she will be here to tour at our Garlic Festival on Sunday, September 19th. The Jugband, who play original music as well as covering the Grateful Dead will perform once again on the lawn, so come on out and get your groove on.  Check out the Jugband at http://www.thejugband.com/ .

Les Kipple, (original publisher of Relix Magazine…a Grateful Dead fanzine ) and Gary Kroman (a famous psychedelic poster artist.  He is best known for his 100 Dead song poster)  Les and Gary signed a stack of “Relix:  The Book along with Toni Brown (Toni Brown Band) This book will be a  great gift for your favorite Deadhead, hippie or rock-n-roll  fan. You can get your copy of “Relix: The Book” here:



So, what is a Garlic Festival, you ask?

It’s a celebration of one of the greatest foods on this earth. Garlic is so exciting. We harvested our garlic here at Woodstock this past June. It’s a special kind of garlic that grows best in our area called Inchelium Red. It excites me to see it grow throughout the winter. To see the little green growth coming out of the ground in the snow is a very joyful experience. And, since we love to share, a bulb is handed out in September to all who attend the festival, which should be planted the week of Columbus Day, as my Garlic mentor, Bill Canaday instructs… to ensure your crop is ready for harvest early summer of 2011.

HOW TO PLANT: The bed should be prepared with composted cow manure. The bulb is separated and each individual clove is planted root side down. . It is planted two inches deep and six inches apart. The bed is to be well mulched immediately. Garlic likes rich, well-drained soil and does well with full sun. Bill had advised me to water only once a week and if has rained during that week I did not have to water at all during the winter months. As the weather gets warm the bed is to be watered just like any other part of
the garden.

HOW TO HARVEST: As harvest approaches in late spring/early summer months, the plants begin to dry down from the lowest leaf up and from the leaf tips downward one leaf at a time. I was told to harvest when the top leaves are still 50% green. Last year I harvested in July because the summer was so hot.

After the bulbs were taken from the ground take the plants inside out of direct sunlight and cure the bulbs for about 3 weeks indoor. At this time cut the stems off about one half inch above the bulb and trim the roots to one half inch length as well.

HOW TO ENJOY: Take a vegetable brush to remove soil from the bulb. Take your best 3 or 4 bulbs for planting for the next year. These bulbs will be the best because they are conditioned for your very own soil conditions. The rest you eat and enjoy.

I welcome you to share my new stock of growing garlic at this time.

And, if you have some Inchelium Red variety from previous Garlic Festivals here at Woodstock Trading Company, please bring a few back to share with others too. It’ll make you feel good!

Courier Post Article July 29th, 2010 - July 29, 2010

After 22 years, business is Dead -- and that's good

By CANDY GRANDE • For the Courier-Post

CHERRY HILL — What a long, strange trip it's been for Gladys "Mom" Glass, 70, and her 43-year-old son, Seth Glass.

As the business partners prepare for the 22nd anniversary of their store, the Woodstock Trading Company in Cherry Hill, they marvel at how the once-humble shop has developed into a well-known establishment.

"When my kids became interested in the Grateful Dead and others, I would have to take them to not-so-nice places to get the posters and music," says Gladys Glass. "I wanted to open a business that wasn't seedy and promoting drug paraphernalia. I wanted a place that felt more like a community. A place where parents could take their children and not worry about what they would see."

So with a few pieces of artwork and a handful of T-shirts and stickers, Glass officially opened the Woodstock Trading Company on the second floor of her husband's dermatology practice on Aug. 1, 1988. Today, the business fills the tie-dyed-patterned building painted by Glass, and sells everything from incense and jewelry to unique and hard-to-find rock 'n' roll memorabilia. Woodstock Trading Company also hosts numerous events such as free lawn concerts, drum and knitting circles, the annual May Pole and Garlic festivals and much more.

"A lot of customers love the free concerts out on the lawn," says Jim Franklin, 22, who has worked at the store for four years. "Not many places offer this. And although you can find unique items, it is also fun just to come and hang out. It is a safe place." ...

Read More at the Courier Post

WIZARD IN THE WOODS POSTER - July 28, 2010

Woodstock Trading Company is always proud to support local artists,
particularly those connected to our Woodstock family. Steve Steinhauser's
“Wizard in the Woods” is a poster that has been created with 3D effects when
using ChromaDepth 3D holographic glasses. This is a computer generated
self-portrait of the artist himself. We have exclusive rights to this unique
work of art. Woodstock is offering this fabulous poster unsigned for only
$10. Signed copies are $15. The poster is 39x27 inches. We will provide the
glasses for free to the first 10 people who purchase a signed edition, so
you can enjoy the layers of colors and depth of the artwork to its fullest.
Quantities are limited, so come see us soon. BTW, the chromodepth glasses
can be purchased for $5.00 each otherwise and will offer an added 3D bonus
to many of your psychedelic artwork and posters.

SETH'S JOURNEY INTO ROCK-N-ROLL MEMORABILIA - July 6, 2010

Seth and Guy at Woodstock monument in Bethel, NY for 25th anniversary.

Well, I accidentally got into The Grateful Dead!
My older brother had a friend who came over and incessantly listened to The
Dead’s “Go To Heaven” album. I would listen from the next room...like and
eavesdropping lurker. I didn't know who it was at the time. He would play
“Alabama Getaway” over and over. I had no idea what it was, who it was or
what it meant. One day, when everyone was out of the house, I was so curious
what the older kids listened to in there. There were 2 GD albums...”Terrapin
Station” and “What a Long Strange Trip It's Been”. The artwork on the album
“What a Long Strange Trip It's Been” was dark, gothic…and weird looking guys
on the cover. I had that initial thought like most else have had about the
Dead at one time...crazy metal band? Well...I was still curious. The first
song I heard knowing it was GD was "Cumberland Blues" It was not anything
like i thought it was going to be. I was quite surprised. They had different
singers, which was extremely rare for bands those days and different
sounds... bluegrass, jazz, blues. Most other bands had "2" sounds...fast and
slow. It was strange! I made a recording...brought it to school...played it
on a box radio...and, a crowd gathered. They kept hanging around, asking
questions. Was I in over my head? I didn’t want to be a poser...but, it was
sort of like Pandora's box. And, I opened it.

I discovered early on as a teen, that there was a "culture" regarding
Deadheads and the artwork...iconography and language, all its own. The
concerts, the t-shirts, the artwork...I thought to myself, ‘How deep does
the rabbit hole go?’ I read a lot, I talked to people...and before you know
it, you're in San Francisco.

There were only shady places to get into the culture...head shops. I wasn’t
interested in drugs, but it seemed inseparable. Where you went for a poster,
there were pipes. It bothered me. That's part of the image that seems to dog
The Grateful Dead and their fans even to this day. All walks of life listen
to GD. The bad that came along with them was no more than any other band,
really.

It was and is a culture, the good and bad of it all.

Woodstock Trading Company has provided a safe haven for this culture, this
community, this family...for 22 years.

It was our dream to do so...and it's one that just keeps on giving
back...day after day!

HOW SETH FELL IN LOVE WITH ROCK-N-ROLL - June 28, 2010

I got started with a love of music pretty young. I remember liking those
crazy novelty songs as a kid. The ones from 50s and 60s... like every kid.
You know…Purple People Eater, Witch Doctor. Hidden in all that weird stuff
were actually some great musicians like Spike Jones. To be able to make
kooky music and structure it so well…I think they're amazing songwriters and
musicians. Writing for kids is difficult to do and still be good. It’s like
a comedian who works clean and is still really funny. It’s rare. I think
Weird Al was the kooky inspiration for next generation of kids. He has
tremendous talent.

The first real album i ever owned other than top-40 funky kid hits... it was
Kansas “Point of Know Return” Excellent material! I saw them perform live in
1979 at The Mann. It was my first real concert. After that, came Simon and
Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Elton John…classics!

I have a personal favorite artist that I have been sure to see perform
“live” throughout the years. That’s Stevie Nicks. She rocks! I don’t go to
see her unless it’s the first few rows. I always wear my orange bandana, so
Stevie is sure to recognize me…and she does! I’ve got it ready to go for her
appearance in Atlantic City August 27th. Can’t wait!

*Woodstock Trading Company Celebrates 22 Years of Hippie History* - June 15, 2010

*Get on the bus! Get with the beat! Get in the groove! *

With just a few dozen t-shirts, 6 or 7 stickers and hand-carried psychedelic
artwork from England and San Francisco, Woodstock Trading Company was born.
It was August 1, 1988. The Grateful Dead were still touring strong. Only a
tie-dyed flag in the window marked the store’s small sliver of the second
floor office above her husband’s dermatology practice. Twenty-two years
later, Woodstock has blossomed to fully encompass the now tie-dyed building.

Owner, Gladys “Mom” Glass recalls how it all began, “The psychedelic music
scene was, in a sense, a community and that was the spirit we wanted to
bring into our hometown. My son, Seth, and I were personally appalled by the
places where people, hippies went to buy artwork and share their love of
rock-n-roll. They were ‘head shops’...selling drug paraphernalia to young
people. But, the culture had so much more to offer than drugs. We wanted a
safe place for the young people to gather. We wanted to create a Woodstock
family of newfound friends.”



*Come join us for our 22nd Anniversary Celebration at Woodstock Trading Company!*

*Sunday, August 1, 2010 from 12-4pm*



*Get on the bus!*

Climb aboard to experience “Sugar Magnolia”… an original 1960’s Rock-N-Roll
tour bus, a flashback into psychedelic history boasting original artwork on
the ceiling and groovy relics all around.

*Get with the beat!*

Meet and greet Les Kipple and Gary Kroman of *Relix* Magazine. Kipple, who
created the original newsletter publication in 1973, will sign his new
release, “Relix The Book: Music for the Mind”, a 30-year collection of
Deadhead culture, history, interviews and artwork. Kroman, an illusion
artist and illustrator for *Relix* Magazine, created volumes of magazine
covers, album cover art, tee shirts and posters, most notably the *100
Grateful Dead songs.***



*Get in the groove!*

A free lawn concert features *The Jugband* and *April Mae and the June Bugs*,
two local bands offering musical flare and fun for the afternoon.

MOM says, “It was always an idea that when The Grateful Dead were gone, the
sense of community would continue. It’s not living in the 'past', it’s
living what ‘is’. I want to be sure people 'experience' this. There have
been many generations who have become a part of our Woodstock family. That
was our dream. And, 22 years later, I’m still living it! It’s why we got our
start …and it’s why we’re still here today.” - Peace, Love & Happiness

Sign of the Times - May 14, 2010

First sign on the building

Second sign

Mom with the new sign

When Woodstock Trading Company first started in this building in August of
1988, it was home to my husband Harvey’s dermatology practice. We did skin
care and make up here. We started this store in a little space we carved
out for ourselves upstairs with a few dozen t-shirts, 6 or 7 stickers and
artwork from someone who sold posters from England...a dozen or so of those.
We had to travel and handcarry those items to sell. We shoved it all into
that little room upstairs. It was heaven. We didn’t even have a sign for
Woodstock Trading Company, so we hung 2 tye dyed flags out the windows to
welcome everyone. Aside from an article in the paper, word spread from
person to person. It was sort of an underground thing…which it kind of still
is to this day. Only now…we are showing our colors on our new sign thanks to
Elspeth and Adam of Sunrise Signs & Graphics! No more conservative look for
us, oh no! The trim is still red around the windows, the building was
gray. And, look how tiny the bushes once were. But, my how WE have grown!

ABOUT US:

Woodstock Trading Company is located at 1880 Route 70 East in Cherry Hill,
NJ offering unique Rock-n-Roll collectibles, memorabilia, t-shirts, Grateful
Dead merchandise, psychedelic artwork, posters, jewelry, beads, glass beads,
incense, stickers, decals, patches, natural soaps, candles, oils and tye-dyes
for all ages, including unique items like underwear, onesies, socks,
shoelaces, bandanas, headbands. Owner, Gladys Glass, fondly known as “Mom”
to many, and her son, Seth, provide a welcoming oasis for the suburban
community since August 1, 1988. WTC supports local bands, artists,
musicians, organizations and initiatives offering tickets to various events
at low or no cost with no service charge. “Mom” is an active member with
Camden County Regional Chamber of Commerce, South Jersey Bead Society, Main
Line Bead Society, South Jersey Guild of Spinners and Handweavers (SJGSH),
International Society of Glass Bead Makers (ISGB), Cherry Hill Arts Board,
Fusion School of Dance, Music and Acting and donates time and funds to The
Voorhees Animal Orphanage. WTC hosts family-friendly free events year round
including lawn concerts, drum circles, knitting circles, jewelry making,
book signings, annual May Pole celebration, annual Garlic Festival. Come
help us to celebrate our 22nd Anniversary this summer! –Peace, Love &
Happiness

MOM: QUEEN OF THE MAY - April 29, 2010

Erecting The First Maypole, our original PVC version… 199? Were you here?

In 1958, I was the beloved queen of The Estrella Triangle Daughters of the
Eastern Star (a female branch of Masons)..I had regalia..I even wore a
gown one year. I have always been the queen! When I was in kindergarten, we
had a spring celebration and I was supposed to be queen of the May...the
maypole. But, I got the chicken pox and couldn't go! So now I get to be
queen of the May each and every year.

May Day was initially a pagan right of fertility and spring...now, it's just
a fun thing. There’s music and laughter and joy. Most people have never seen
a maypole, but it used to be done all the time when I was young.

When we decided to host the first May Day Celebration on the lawn here at
Woodstock Trading Company many years ago, we had to put things together
to create a maypole. We went to the hardware store and bought some PVC,
later we used a galvanized pole realizing this would become a permanent
annual event. We needed an additional couple of feet to make it
proper...tall enough for length of ribbon, that we screw on to the top to
attach the ribbons to it.

Everyone gets a ribbon...we dance to music and you interweave with one
another to form designs on the pole with the ribbons. It is particularly fun
for the kids ...and it's free. Just come on out and enjoy spring...period!
No worries that it takes me 2 weeks to untangle all the ribbons when you’re
gone. LOL!

It’s also Seth’s Birthday…and my late mother’s birthday, as well as May’s
adoption day. Come on out and celebrate spring!

MAYPOLE EVENT
SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2010 12-4PM
KRISS NOYES TRIO – BAND