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What a story, Thomas! Hope you spread that more widely. I assume someone has written somewhere about those events. Anyone know? On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Thomas via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Here’s another road story with political twist. > > Hitchhiked from very Southern Indiana to the West Coast and back summer of > 1959, college break. Seemed like a good idea at the time. > > My road outfit was a short haircut, a blue seersucker suit, a very small > suitcase and a pre-war Gibson jumbo guitar.’ > > That was to play the music of my Indiana place of origin, a combination of > old time, bluegrass and Hank Williams style. > > I say with all modesty that earlier that summer, yours truly, with > Charlotte Bell, and Jimmy Neawedee, won first place at the Bill Monroe > Brown County Jamboree Bluegrass talent search program, Nashville, Indiana, > picking and singing The Dream Of The Miners Child and Freight Train > Careless Love. We had also learned and did some songs by another country > musician we liked, Woody Guthrie. > > Hitching hiking back East through Oklahoma, I was picked up by a farmer > driving a beat up bailing wire repaired pickup truck, probably 60 or 70 > years old. The farmer, not the truck. > > He said he’d give me a ride if I did him some music. > > So, being in Oklahoma, I did Pretty Boy Floyd, a Guthrie song about how > Floyd, from Shawnee, Oklahoma stole from the rich and gave food and money > to poor farmers who had nothing. > > When I got done, there was a silence and then the farmer said, “That’s a > true song.” > > After another silence he said, “Back then, we got our rifles and we came > to town. Lots of us did that. Lots of towns. We took the ice house, and > the meat locker plant, and the electric, and the phone company and the > banks, and tore up the bank paper on the farms. > > “Then that son- of-a-bitch Roosevelt came in and made us give them all > back.” > > “But we’ll get them again someday.” > > T > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: Gulf Mann via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> > >Sent: Nov 22, 2014 12:22 PM > >To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> > >Subject: Re: [Marxism] Highway 61 Again--A Book Review > > > >Me and my best buddy hitched from DC to Nuevo Laredo towards the end > >of the Summer of 1958, likewise inspired by Kerouac. We wanted to have > >a life adventure (we did), meet interesting people (we did, including > >one solo driver that picked us up who may have been Paul Newman), > >smoke Mary Jane (we did), get laid (we did), drink (we did), and have > >bragging rights and cred in our college-bound circle (accomplished). > >I, too, wish I'd kept a journal or used a camera. > > > >>> ***************************************************************** > >> > >> On 11/21/14 3:07 PM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote > >>> > >>> > http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2014/11/going-down-highway-61-again.html > >> > >> I hitchhiked from Dallas to Baltimore on Highway 61 in August 1965. It > >> is a miracle I made it in one piece. I was trying to emulate Jack > >> Kerouac, it had nothing to do with civil rights. Had many incredible > >> encounters including a ride with some guy in Maryland driving a hot-rod. > >> I wish I had kept a journal. > >> > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
