I just found something new coming out on Woody Guthrie maybe no one, like myself, had heard about?  It's about a book coming out this year called "Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park" and there is a link to an associated video on You Tube called "Woody Guthrie at Greystone Asylum".  Web sites for both are below.

 

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Jean 

 

PS - the link for the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives mentioned below is: http://www.woodyguthrie.org/ 

For those of you who never knew how many children's books and songs that Woody wrote, please visit this site.  I found them several months back and was AMAZED!  I would like to see us get some of those books for future NYA auctions as well as some of the songs for some of the kids to sing in the annual NYA talent show! 

 

Woody Guthrie's Childrens Books & Songs
"If you'll gather 'round me children, a story I will tell," sings Woody Guthrie in "Pretty Boy Floyd." Children of all ages have never stopped gathering 'round Woody Guthrie since he recorded these songs in the spring of 1940
http://woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TWGS&Category_Code=FAM

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I was doing a search for something else on HD this morning and The Practice Room a website with music in the news came up
http://thepracticeroom.typepad.com/the_practice_room/2006/04/index.html Down towards the bottom I found this:

In 1954 Woody Guthrie entered New Jersey’s Greystone Hospital. At the time no one knew what was wrong with him, beyond increasingly erratic behavior. (Later he was diagnosed with Huntington’s Chorea, a disease associated with the wasting of brain cells.) He was in and out of hospitals and institutions for the rest of life; he died in Creedmore State Hospital in Queens, New York in 1967.

The New York Daily News recently ran a story about a photographer, Phil Buehler, who normally specializes in photos of ‘modern ruins.’ One such ruin he explored was that same Greystone Hospital, now much reduced in scope with several abandoned buildings. In one of those buildings he found photos the hospital staff had taken of Guthrie during his stay there, along with letters from him, medical files and a play he wrote while at the hospital. It all documented a period in Guthrie’s life about which very little is known.

Buehler presented the materials he found to the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives in Manhattan. He also used them to create a public exhibit and a book, which is due out in 2007. 
 
I clicked on Phil Buehler and was taken to this:
 
Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park
http://www.modern-ruins.com/

by Phil Buehler

My book on Woody Gurhrie's life at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital will be published in late 2007 by the University of Illinois Press. Photographs of the abandoned buildings at Greystone are juxtaposed with interviews with people like Arlo Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, never-before-published family photographs as well as Guthrie's letters and medical records from Greystone. The never-aired episode about Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park from the History Channel series "Weird U.S." is now up on YouTube.

If you'd like to be notified when the book is available or to get a signed copy, please let me know at pwbuehler@...

 

You Tube video:

Woody Guthrie at Greystone Asylum