Need a Woodie

[daepp]

It's not what you think.

I am in charge of a 40,000 person 3 day gathering at a church and school in Claremont, CA (40 mi east of LA). This year's theme is California Dreaming, and we are looking for 3 or for guys/woodies to spend a little time there on a Friday and Saturday night. We would offer up some free meals and a beer or two for the non-drivers. We might even be able to offer some ride tickets for kids/grandkids.

Anyone know a good Woodie club other than So Cal Woodies? I have attempted to contact them but have not hears anything. Can you think of a better way to get some woodies there? If this was a Porsche related theme and you were close enough, would it interest you?

Thanks

[crustychief]

I saw one today at shelter island but it had a yacht brokers sign on it. I will go down that way tomorrow and give you the info. BTW this post will probably bring some unwanted comments.

[craigster59]

Here ya go!

[daepp]

For Woodie...

I'm out here a thousand miles from my home,
Walkin' a road other men have gone down.
I'm seein' your world of people and things,
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings.

Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
'Bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along.
Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn,
It looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.

Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know
All the things that I'm a-sayin' an' a-many times more.
I'm a-singin' you the song, but I can't sing enough,
'Cause there's not many men that done the things that you've done.

Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Leadbelly too,
An' to all the good people that traveled with you.
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.

I'm a-leaving' tomorrow, but I could leave today,
Somewhere down the road someday.
The very last thing that I'd want to do
Is to say I've been hittin' some hard travelin' too.

My Achilles heel - I am fairly conservative but I love the old folk music

[MRM]

Mine too. I grew up in the type of family where we had Richard Nixon yard signs and my father called his best blue pinstripe suit his President Nixon suit. But for some reason the old fold-up record player we had in the house was stocked with old folk albums from Tennesee Ernie Ford to Woodie Guthrie. Was it Joan Baez who sang The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down? I used to play them all and sign along. It was a long time before I understood that 16 Tons was a union organizing song. It was still longer before I fully understood what it meant to be another day older and deeper in debt. I still know the words to most of those old folksies.

For what it's worth, I long ago reconciled my political beliefs with the Woodie Guthrie era of folk. I decided they were all conservatives, they just didn't know it. All those depression era songs are about the little guy trying to get free from the man, trying to make a living without having someone with more power taking it away from him. What can be more conservaitve than that?

OK, back on topic. So you say that Woodie Guthrie made vans? Wow. Are you sure it wasn't Arlo you're thinking about?

[911Rob]

very appropriate for "this" thread.... I think I got this pic off this board about 7 years ago... Ha, ha.