Related Links for Woody Guthrie

www.woodyguthrie.org This is the website for the Woody Guthrie Archives. Full of information.

www.woodyguthrie.com  Every summer there is a wonderful, free folk music festival in Woody's home town of Okemah, Oklahoma.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/wwghome Amazing site set up by the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress to celebrate Woody. Includes a selected discography (list of  Woody's music which is available), timeline of Woody's life, letters he wrote, and much more.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html This site documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. The collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, and written materials. Listening to the songs will give you a good idea of Woody's musical background. 

http://www.weedpatchcamp.com/index.htm While writing The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck lived in Bakersfield, California and based his book on Arvin Federal Government Camp, which he portrayed as "Weedpatch Camp." The camp is still used by migrant farm labor. This site has lots of history about the camp, and information about the annual Dust Bowl Festival, held every October.

http://www.arlo.net Check out what Woody's son,  Arlo Guthrie, is up to these days.

http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html This site has music you can play from a number of different songs that Woody recorded. Check it out to hear Woody sing.

www.themomi.org/museum/Guthrie/index The Museum of Musical Instruments has put together a site devoted to Woody. It integrates history, music, photographs, essays, poems, letters and drawings to tell his story.

Huntington's Disease

www.hdsa.org The Huntington's Disease Society of America (HDSA) is dedicated to finding a cure for Huntington's Disease (HD) while providing support and services for those living with HD and their families.

www.hdfoundation.org The Hereditary Disease Foundation is a non-profit, basic science organization dedicated to the cure of genetic disease, with a focus on Huntington's.

Music Links

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of an ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.