Woody Guthrie archives yield treasure for the entire family.

From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | Date: May 24, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Nick Cristiano

For too many people, Woody Guthrie is freeze-dried in history as the populist heartland folkie who composed "This Land Is Your Land," and was a mentor to Bob Dylan. At least that is what his daughter believes.

"Everybody has to get off this black-and-white, sepia-toned, Dust-Bowl-balladeer image," said Nora Guthrie, executive director of New York's Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives. "He's very colorful."

She would know, and not just because she was raised by him. The archives are home to more than 3,000 sets of original Woody Guthrie ...

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