Product Overview
The companion book to Woody Guthrie's Wardy Forty: Greystone Park State Hospital Revisited . The stories that were told of Guthrie when he was institutionalized at Greystone Hospital were so fascinating that Nora Guthrie and Phil Buehler thought they should each be shared in their entirety in this companion book. Interviews with: 1. Jeff Carroll (A researcher at Dr. Michael Hayden's lab who underwent predictive testing and was found to be carrying the Huntington's gene.) 2. Dr. Vincenzo Cocilovo (A retired doctor who worked at Greystone Park Hospital while Guthrie was a patient - the only doctor of Woody's ever interviewed.) 3. John Cohen (A professional photographer, musicologist, and was a founding member of the musical group the New Lost City Ramblers. He was a friend of Woody's.) 4. Ramblin' Jack Elliott (A professional musician, and close family friend of the Guthrie family.) 5. Sidsel Gleason (A close friend of Guthrie whose apartment in East Orange, NJ was a gathering place for young musicians who wanted to visit with Guthrie while he was a patient at Greystone.) 6. Arlo Guthrie (The eldest son of Woody & Marjorie Guthrie and a professional musician.) 7. Marjorie Mazia Guthrie (Guthrie's second wife, a professional dancer who founded the Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease and co-founder of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives.) 8. Dr. Michael Hayden (A physician scientist committed to finding treatments for HD, President of global Research and Development at Teva, Israel.) 9. Harold Leventhal (A music and concert promoter in New York City, Woody Guthrie's manager, and co-founder of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives.) 10. Vincent Jimmy Longhi (Attorney, author, and playwright who served with Guthrie in the Merchant Marine.), 11. Anneke Van Kirk (Guthrie's third wife who has not interviewed in over 30 years.)
