The original “New Years Rulin’s” from Woody Guthrie’s journal
When we shared our New Year’s post including Woody Guthrie’s own famous resolutions/”rulin’s,” I was reminded of the visit that Hightower and I made to the fantastic Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, OK this past spring. Not only is the Center a thoughtful and beautiful collection of Woody’s work, but it’s also a poignant and insightful record of that era that he lived through. (With a bonus original copy of the song lyrics he wrote about Trump’s dad, his landlord when he lived in Brooklyn!)
The mainstream view of history that we’re taught leaves out so many radical perspectives on the realities of the day, and whenever I discover those perspectives and experience them, they give me a visceral sense of belonging to the long, long tradition of pushing for progress no matter what. It reminds me to keep marching, and to keep contributing to the documentation of our radical moments together.
Enjoy these photos and video from our time at the Center, and be sure to visit them if you ever have the chance.
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