Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie was not only a folk song writer. He was a prolífic writer of letters, notebooks, autobiographies - and a novel. He lived & worked in the Texas Panhandle, & knew intimately the poverty & homelessness caused by the Dust Bowl. On a visit to Nambé Pueblo in New México in 1936, he had an epiphany: he saw people making homes out of adobe. He used his novel House of Earth to demonstrate that people could use all that dust to make sun-dried bricks, mortar them together with mud, and have a sturdy house to protect them from the forces of nature. "This Land Is Your Land." And your house.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:52:59 +0000
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