At the time, Guthrie's brother, Frederick, was a student of Augustus De Morgan at University College.

Guthrie's early family life was affected by several fires, including one that caused the loss of his family's home in Okemah.

His sister Clara later died in a coal-oil ( used for heating ) fire when Guthrie was seven, and Guthrie's father was severely burned in a subsequent coal-oil fire.

It is unknown whether they were accidents or the result of actions by Guthrie's mother Nora, who was afflicted with Huntington's disease, although the family did not know this at the time.

A librarian in Pampa shelved this manuscript under Guthrie's name, but it was later lost in a library reorganization.

These have included Tyrone Guthrie's 1960 production from Stratford, Ontario, seen on Broadway in 1960 and in London in 1962 and a New Sadler's Wells Opera Company production first seen on 4 June 1984 at Sadler's Wells Theatre, which was seen also in New York.

Norman revealed that " I recorded " This Land Is Your Land " and " They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave " with a guitar I borrowed that was Woody Guthrie's ; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside.

* Guthrie's downtown area still had brick streets in 1978 when Fast Charlie ... the Moonbeam Rider ( 1979 ) was filmed in town.

# Technicalities: Arlo Guthrie's lone top 40 hit was " The City of New Orleans ," but he is more widely known for his 18-minute song " Alice's Restaurant ," which did not qualify as a single on account of its length ; sales of " Alice's Restaurant " were counted instead on the album charts.

The tradition of writing topical songs ( songs regarding specific issues of the day, such as LeadBelly's " Jim Crow Blues " or Guthrie's " Deportee ") was established by this group of musicians.

Arlo Guthrie's " Alice's Restaurant ," which runs for 18½ minutes, is based on true-life events that occurred in Great Barrington and the adjoining towns of Stockbridge and Lee., which is at the Old Trinity Church and was the home of Ray and Alice Brock at the time of the incidents related in the song, is at 4 Van Deusenville Road in Great Barrington.

Guthrie's lyrics describe Grand Coulee Dam as " the mightiest thing ever built by a man "; when it was built it was the largest concrete dam in the world, and as of 2012 it is still the largest electric power-producing facility in the United States and one of the largest concrete structures in the world.

Guthrie was Dylan's main musical influence at the time of Bob Dylans release, and indeed on several of the songs Dylan is apparently imitating Guthrie's vocal mannerisms.

John George Diefenbaker was a delegate to that convention and he wrote in his memoirs that Guthrie's candidacy was hurt when the former Liberal absent-mindedly declared in his speech to delegates that the Tory meeting was the " greatest Liberal convention in history ".

In 1973, he received the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America for expository excellence in his paper " Thirteen Colorful Variations on Guthrie's Four-color Conjecture " on the four color problem, and in 2000 he was awarded the gold medal of the International Society on Multi-criteria Decision Making.

The guitar was made from artifacts Jay gathered from the site of Guthrie's childhood home.

The first known professionally printed publication was in 1956 by Ludlow Music ( now a unit of The Richmond Organization ), which administered the publishing rights to Guthrie's song.

Guthrie's melody was very similar to the melody of " Oh, My Loving Brother ", a Baptist gospel hymn that had been recorded by the Carter Family as " When the World's On Fire " and had inspired their " Little Darlin ', Pal of Mine.

The line " This land was made for you and me " does not literally appear in the manuscript at the end of each verse, but is implied by Guthrie's writing of those words at the top of the page and by his subsequent singing of the line with those words.

Guthrie's military career saw service with the Welsh Guards and the Special Air Service ; he was closely involved in military operations in Northern Ireland and provided advice to the British Government during the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War.

However, Guthrie's lyrics intend to motivate her partner into being responsible for maintaining equality and financial stability.

Eventually, Guthrie's father sent for his son to come to Texas, but little changed for the aspiring musician.

Bound for Glory is a 1976 American film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory.

Formed under the name " The Nightlife Thugs ," the group agreed on the name change to the " Boomtown Rats " after a gang that Geldof read about in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory.

When the USA entered the European war after Germany's post-Pearl Harbor declaration of war in December 1941, the Almanacs recorded a new topical album for Keynote in support of the war effort, Dear Mr. President, under the supervision of Earl Robinson, that included Woody Guthrie's " Reuben James " ( 1942 ).

Woody Guthrie's autobiographical novel Seeds of Man begins with Woody and his uncle Jeff tapping a natural gas pipeline for drip gas.

Monbiot based his argument on Guthrie's September 2002 statement for an invasion of Iraq and subsequent comments, in which he appeared to support launching " surprise wars ", something forbidden by the United Nations Charter.

Initial studies using Robert Guthrie's test for PKU reported high false positive rates that were attributed to a poorly selected type of filter paper.

* The History of Newborn Screening-Flash Cast by Harvey Levy, MD: In this 40-minute talk and slide presentation, offered here in ten short video sections, Dr. Levy covers the history of newborn screening, starting with the origin of the concept of errors of inborn metabolism in the early 1900s, covering Dr. Robert Guthrie's development of newborn screening for PKU, and moving through current screening methods and public health approaches.

Butler translated the text for Guthrie's 1934 production of Anton Chekhov's Cherry Orchard, for perhaps its first English-language production.

Inspired by Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant, Deschamps made his first real monologue part of the review when Robert Charlebois did not want to learn his lines for the dialogue ( he decided to strum the guitar instead ).

When Bolus undertook to do the family of Ericaceae for Flora Capensis, he enlisted Guthrie's aid and they collaborated until Guthrie's death.

Together they recorded Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah ( 2004 ) and Wonder Wheel ( 2006 ) which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album.

Then he was joined by the band for a few numbers, and the finale, Woody Guthrie's ' This Land Is Your Land ,' featuring everyone on stage from Allen Ginsberg to Bob's mother Beattie one night.

A formation of military aircraft consisting of four Apaches and Guthrie's Kiowa, fly down to South America to provide air support for a DEA mission to hunt down and arrest drug cartel leaders.

Guthrie's unrecorded written lyrics housed at the Archives have been the starting point of several albums including the Wilco and Billy Bragg albums Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue Vol.

" Roll On, Columbia ( part 2 )" by Washington band June Madrona references Guthrie's song then runs down negative impacts of the dams, including deaths during their construction, the flooding of the native village at Celilo Falls, and disrupted salmon runs.

" Melodically, the song is based on one of Guthrie's own compositions, " 1913 Massacre ," but it is possible Guthrie fashioned " 1913 Massacre " from an even earlier melody ; like many folk artists, including Dylan, Guthrie would often adopt familiar folk melodies into new compositions.

It even made an appearance at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 during Arlo Guthrie's performance.

Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads ( 1940 ) is considered to be the first concept album.

II, created in 1998 sessions at the invitation of Guthrie's daughter Nora.

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is held annually in mid-July to commemorate Guthrie's life and music.

The festival is held on the weekend closest to Guthrie's birth date ( July 14 ) in Guthrie's hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma.

Planned and implemented annually by the Woody Guthrie Coalition, a non-profit corporation, the goal is simply to ensure Guthrie's musical legacy.

On January 20, 1968, three months after Guthrie's death, Harold Leventhal produced A Tribute to Woody Guthrie at New York City's Carnegie Hall.

Bruce Springsteen also performed a cover of Guthrie's " This Land is Your Land " on his live album Live 1975 – 1985.

Highlights included Arlo Guthrie's keynote address, a Saturday night musical jamboree at Cleveland's Odeon Theater, and a Sunday night concert at Severance Hall, the home of the Cleveland Orchestra.

The ensemble show toured around the country and included a rotating cast of singer-songwriters individually performing Guthrie's songs.

Interspersed between songs were Guthrie's philosophical writings read by a narrator.

In addition to LaFave, members of the rotating cast included Ellis Paul, Slaid Cleaves, Eliza Gilkyson, Joel Rafael, husband-wife duo Sarah Lee Guthrie ( Woody Guthrie's granddaughter ) and Johnny Irion, Michael Fracasso, and The Burns Sisters.

After they were published in 1931, Guthrie's plays aired on the American networks.

Folk singer Woody Guthrie's song, " 1913 Massacre ", is based on this event.