Happy Bastille Day, Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie

by SixofNine 4 Replies latest jw friends

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    I just found out that Woody Guthrie was born on this day, Juliette 14; I met his very sweet sister last week at the Woody Guthrie Folk festival.

    On a side Jehovahs-Witness-related note: is it a weird Witness anomoly that my mom didn't know who Woody Guthrie is? Social isolation? It's especially weird because my mom is 75 yo and has a great uncle named Woody, and came out of the same dust--bowl type poverty that Woody Guthrie did. To her credit she knew of (but not anything about) Arlo Guthrie.

  • jaguarbass
    jaguarbass

    I read "Bound for Glory" by Woodie Gutherie about a month ago.

    It was very good. I recommend it. It was about hobos, jumping trains, picking fruit and

    growing up as a child when kids played and had imaginations. Similar to on the Road by Jack

    Kerouac.

  • SacrificialLoon
  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    Six...Is it possible your mother knows of his son Arlo?

    Woody and his wife certainly raised a fine son with a big heart. Arlo has made some timeless musical contributions to the world. He has also done a lot to help others. It is not mentioned in the blurb below, but he also helped to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. I love Arlo.

    In 1991 Arlo purchased the old Trinity Church. It was Thanksgiving 1965 that events took place at the church which inspired Arlo to write the song "Alice's Restaurant". Named for his parents, The Guthrie Center is a not-for-profit interfaith church foundation dedicated to providing a wide range of local and international services. Its outreach programs include everything from providing HIV/AIDS services to baking cookies with a local service organization; an HD walk-a-thon to raise awareness and money for a cure for Huntington's Disease, and offering a place simply to meditate. The Guthrie Foundation is a separate not-for-profit educational organization that addresses issues such as the environment, health care, cultural preservation and educational exchange.

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine
    Woody and his wife certainly raised a fine son with a big heart. Arlo has made some timeless musical contributions to the world. He has also done a lot to help others. It is not mentioned in the blurb below, but he also helped to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. I love Arlo.
    In 1991 Arlo purchased the old Trinity Church. It was Thanksgiving 1965 that events took place at the church which inspired Arlo to write the song "Alice's Restaurant". Named for his parents, The Guthrie Center is a not-for-profit interfaith church foundation dedicated to providing a wide range of local and international services. Its outreach programs include everything from providing HIV/AIDS services to baking cookies with a local service organization; an HD walk-a-thon to raise awareness and money for a cure for Huntington's Disease, and offering a place simply to meditate. The Guthrie Foundation is a separate not-for-profit educational organization that addresses issues such as the environment, health care, cultural preservation and educational exchange.

    Cameo,

    One cool thing at the Woody Guthrie festival last week: At the same breakfast joint that I met Mary Jo Guthrie (Woody's sister), I spoke with a friend of a friend, a young guy (20ish), who said he'd had the uniquely surreal experience of having been in Alice's Restaurant (the Church), on Thanksgiving day last year, performing, with Arlo Guthrie in the audience.

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