Tag: Jim Haynes

Jim Haynes who died in January in Paris, was someone who made himself available to anyone regardless of their age, gender, origin or background.Reflecting that accessibility, the film, Meeting Jim, which is all...

Jim Haynes, an American with so many connections to, and so much influence on Edinburgh, died in Paris this week.Born in Louisiana in 1933, Haynes lived in Venezuela, and attended a boarding...

Unless you were there, it is hard to imagine what post- war Edinburgh was like in the early 1960s. A profoundly middle-class city, it was dominated by an almost unimaginable veneer of propriety and professional respectability  -...

Meeting Jim is a feature length documentary journey through the lifetime of Jim Haynes, an extraordinary 83-year-old American who grabbed with heart and soul the spirit of the 1960s and continued to carry it...