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November 18, 2003
Fanfare For Woody Guthrie
Great article on the Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives in the Star-Ledger. Very little on the his battle with Huntington's Disease but more details about the rest of his life. A few tidbits from the article:
"As the world learns more about the endlessly fascinating Woody Guthrie, Nora gets closer to her father.
When she was growing up, he was suffering from the disease that would eventually kill him -- Huntington's chorea, a degenerative disorder of the nervous system -- and could not communicate very well. He spent most of her youth in hospitals, including Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris County, where he stayed from 1956 to 1961.
But when she explores the archives, she says, "I'm going back in time and going, 'Oh, that's how you felt that day.' 'That's how you felt about having a fatal disease.' 'That's how you felt about God.'
"This has been, a little bit, my turning the tables on life. Most people have a great time with their parents in the first half of their life, then in the second half they might have to take care of them, since they get ill. We did all of our caretaking in the beginning, and now we have this really spirited guy in (the archives). And he's directing traffic, I'll tell you! Everyone says, 'OK, what does Woody want now?' "
Posted by Dave at November 18, 2003 07:16 PM
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