Life Timeline

Life & Song Timeline
Woody's Song Timeline	YEAR	Woody's Life Timeline

	1878	Woody's father, Charley Guthrie, is born.
	1888	Woody's mother, Nora Belle Sherman, is born.
	1902	Charley Guthrie meets Nora Belle Sherman.
	1904	Charley Guthrie marries Nora Belle Sherman.
	1904	Nov. 24- Charley and Nora’s first child, Clara Edna Guthrie, is born.
	1906	Dec. 17- Charley and Nora’s second child, Roy Guthrie, is born.
	1907	The Guthrie family moves to Okemah, Oklahoma.
	1912	Woodrow Wilson nominated by the Democratic Party for President. July 14- Charley and Nora’s third child, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, is born.
	1913	Woodrow Wilson elected president of the US.
	1914	The Guthrie family moves into the “Old London House” on South First Street, in Okemah.
	1918	Feb.- Charley and Nora’s fourth child, George Guthrie, is born.
	1919	May- Woody's older sister, Clara Edna Guthrie, passes away from a house fire.
	1922	Oil discovered in Cromwell, 12 miles southwest of Okemah. Charley and Nora’s fifth child, Mary Josephine Guthrie, is born.
	1923	Okemah’s population jumps to 15,000 because of the Cromwell oil.
	1926	Charley sends two of his children, George and Mary Jo, to stay with his sister Maude in Pampa, Texas.
	1927	Charley severely burned in fire. Nora Belle Guthrie hospitalized. Charley moves to Pampa, Texas to recuperate. Woody stays with Roy in Okemah, Oklahoma.
	1927-1929	Woody lives with various families in Okemah.
	1929	Woody moves to Pampa, Texas. Nora Belle Guthrie passes away from Huntington's disease at hospital in Norman, Oklahoma.
	1930	Woody forms his first band, The Corncob Trio, with friends Matt Jennings and Cluster Baker.
	1932	Height of the Great Depression.
	1933	Woody marries Mary Jennings.
Don't You Marry	1935	Apr. 14- Black Easter Dust Storms. Woody & Mary’s first child, Gwendolyn Gail Guthrie, is born.
Do Re Mi Dust Bowl Blues Dust Can’t Kill Me Dust Pneumony Hard Ain’t It Hard Oklahoma Hills Philadelphia Lawyer	1937	Woody leaves Pampa, Texas and heads to California, the “Garden of Eden”. July- Woody & Mary’s second child, Carolyn Sue Guthrie, is born. Sept.- Woody & singing partner Maxine “Lefty Lou” Crissman perform for the first time on KFVD Radio. Dec.- Woody, Mary & their kids move to Glendale, California.
Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore Christ For President Dust Bowl Refugee Gypsy Davy (circa) Gypsy's Fortune Sally Don't You Grieve	1938	Jan. 22- Woody, Mary, Jeff & Allene Guthrie (Woody’s cousin), and others travel to Tia Juana, Mexico to work on XELO Radio. It doesn’t work out and they move back to California three weeks later. June 18- Woody & Maxine “Lefty Lou” Crissman end the Woody & Lefty Show on KFVD.
Airline To Heaven At My Window Sad And Lonely Blowin’ Down This Road California Stars (circa) Grand Coulee Dam He And She Listening To That Wind That Blows Mr. Tom Mooney Is Free Old cracked Looking Glass (circa) One By One (circa) Orange Blossom Ring Pretty Boy Floyd Secrets Of The Sea This Morning I Am Born Again Wheel Of Life Will Rogers Highway	1939	Mar.- “The Grapes of Wrath” published. It sells 420,565 copies in the first year and wins both the Pulitzer and National Book Award. May 12- The first “Woody Sez” column appears in “People’s World”. July- Ed Robbins introduces Woody to Will Geer. Sept. and Oct.- Woody travels with Will Geer and others to support migrant workers organizing. Oct. 7- Woody & Mary’s third child, William Rogers Guthrie, is born.
Dirty Overhalls Great Dust Storm Hard Travelin' Hey Hey Hey Hey I Don't Feel At Home On The Bowery No More It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song Jesus Christ New York Town (circa) Nine Hundred Miles (circa) Slipknot So Long It's Been Good To Know You This Land Is Your Land Tom Joad Union Maid Unwelcomed Guest, The Vigilante Man Why Do You Stand There In The Rain?	1940	Woody & Mary appear as extras in Pare Lorenz' Fight For Life documentary film. Feb.- Woody moves to New York City , New York and stays with friends Will & Herta Geer. Feb. 18- Will Geer introduces Woody to Alan Lomax at a benefit concert for Spanish Loyalist refugees. Feb. 23- Woody writes "This Land Is Your Land" while living at the Hanover House, in New York City. Mar. 3- Pete Seeger, while performing at a "Grapes of Wrath" benefit concert hears Woody perform for the first time. Mar. 21, 22, 24- Woody records for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC . May- Woody records "Dust Bowl Ballads" for RCA Victor. Aug.- Woody appears on CBS Radio "Forecast" series in a pilot for a series "Back Where I Come From." Nov.- Appears on "Cavalcade of America" Nov.- Woody is hired by the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust (circa) Bed On The Floor Better Go Down And Join The Union (circa) Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (Great Historical Bum) Blue Eyes Columbia's Waters Curfew Blow (circa) Curley Headed Baby (circa) End Of My Line Jack Hammer Blues Jesse James And His Boys (circa) Ladies Auxiliary Little Black Train (circa) Lumber Is King Mister Charley Lindbergh (circa) More Pretty Gals Than One (circa) New Found Land Oregon Line Out Past The End Of The Line Pastures Of Plenty Portland Town To Klamath Ramblin' Reckless Hobo (circa) Ramblin' 'Round (circa) Roll On Columbia Ship In The Sky Song Of The Grand Coulee Dam Talking Columbia/Columbia Talking Blues Union Buryin' Ground Washington Talkin' Blues (circa) White Ghost Train	1941	Jan.- Leaves New York City with Mary and their three children and head across the country. Feb.- Woody gets a short term job back on KFVD in Los Angeles, California. Woody also begins his work on a manuscript of what will become "Bound For Glory". Mar.- Woody performs at International Woman's Day Committee Tea. Apr. 3- Woody performs at an Okie benefit in Los Angeles, California . Apr. 4- Woody performs at Barn Dance, a benefit for Cannery and Agricultural Workers Union. May 13- Woody begins his month-long Columbia River project where he earns $266.66. July 7- Woody records with the Almanac Singers, "Deep Sea Chanties" and "Sod Buster Ballads". July- Upon returning to New York City, Woody joins up with the Almanac Singers on a trip West. Together they perform in Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, and San Francisco . Aug.- Woody appears at Asheville, North Carolina for a Folk Festival. Dec. 7- Attack on Pearl Harbor. Dec. 8- US enters World War II.
All You Fascists Bound To Lose Be No Church Tonight Better World A Coming Dirty Overalls East Texas Red Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight Great And Bloody Fight Hard Travelin' Sinking Of The Reuben James Sixty-Six Highway Blues So Long It's Been Good To Know You	1942	Jan.- Woody records home discs with Almanacs in New York City . Jan.- Woody meets Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt at Almanac House, while rehearsing for "Folksay" choreographed by Sophie Maslow. July- RCA rejects Woody's proposal to record his war songs.
Dead Or Alive Dig a Hole (circa) Jackhammer John Jesus Christ Talkin Subway Blues Talkin' Sailor (Aka Talkin' Merchant Marine) Talking Fishing Blues (circa) Union Feelin (circa) When The Yanks Go Marching In You Better Get Ready (circa)	1943	Feb.- Woody and Marjorie Guthrie's first child, Cathy Ann Guthrie, is born. Mar.- Bound For Glory published. June 5- Woody ships out with the Merchant Marines with buddies Cisco Houston and Vincent "Jimmy" Longhi. Woody, Marjorie & Cathy move to 3520 Mermaid Avenue, Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.
1913 Massacre (circa) All You Fascists Been Out On An Ocean Trip Biggest Thing Born To Win Build Me A World Harriet Tubman I Gotta Go Down Ninety Mile Wind Ranger's Command (circa) Remember The Mountain Bed	1944	Apr. 16, 19, 20, 24, 25- Woody records for Moe Asch. Apr. 19- Recording session with Cisco Houston, where they record 57 songs. Oct.- Woody performs in Chicago with the FDR Bandwagon. Woody records his album "Struggle" for Asch Records.
Belle Starr (circa) Birds and Ships (circa) Black Wind Blowing (circa) Buffalo Skinners Dying Miner Gonna Get Through This World I Like To Stay Home With Daddy I'm Shipping Up To Boston (circa) It's A Wrinkled, Crumpled, Rumpled Look (circa) Ludlow Massacre Meanest Man Miner's Kids And Wives Roll On Little Ocean Talking Meaness Union Train	1945	Mar.- Woody records for Moe Asch. Mar. 10- Woody attends an all-day conference on Folklore in a Democracy with Ben Botkin, Herbert Haufrecht, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Charles Seeger, and Sonny Terry at Elizabeth Irwin High School. May 8- Woody is inducted into the Army. Dec. 21- Woody is discharged from the Army.
All Work Together Blinding Of Isaac Woodward Bugeye Jim Build My House Cadillac Eight Don't You Push Me Down (circa) Hoodoo Voodoo How Joo Do? Jigalong Home Just One More Time Little Curly Head Little Sacka Sugar Mail Myself To You Me Yellow Crayon My Little Seed My Rolling Ocean Needle Song Pick It Up Race You Down The Mountain Revolutionary Mind Sleep Eye Sleepy Eyes Swimmy Swim Swim Walt Whitmans Neice Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key	1946	Songs To Grow On For Mother and Child is released.
Against Th' Law Bigger Blubber My Gum Dance Around My Atom Fire Goodnight Little Arlo Heaven Little Bird My New York City Talking Miner Ticky Tock Woman At Home (circa)	1947	Feb.- Cathy Guthrie passes awat from an electrical fire. July 10- Woody and Marjorie's second child, Arlo Guthrie, is born.
Come See Dear Mrs. Roosevelt Farmer-Labor Train Feed Of Man (circa) Grassy Grow Ilsa Koch I've Got To Know Los Gatos Plane Wreck Make A Blubble My Dolly Put Your Finger In The Air Riding In My Car Someday Some Morning Sometime Tea Bag Blues Tip Tap Toe	1948	June to Nov.- Woody and Cisco sing for the Wallace campaign. Dec. 25- Woody and Marjorie's third child, Joady Guthrie, is born.
Baltimore To Washington Come When I Call You Eisler On The Go Fastest Of Ponies Hannuka's Flame Hanuka Bell Hanuka Dance Hanuka Gelt Hanuka Time Hanuka Tree Headdy Down Hezitatin' Beauty Hour Cometh, The Joe Dimaggio Done It Again Many & The Few, The Mother Sing Again Veedee Blues Warden Of The Skies	1949
Dance A Little Longer Every 100 Years (circa) God And Joseph I Was Born Ingrid Bergman Mermaid's Avenue My Flying Saucer Another Man's Done Gone	1950	Jan. 2- Woody and Marjorie's fourth child, Nora Guthrie, is born. Feb.- Woody enrolls in classes at Brooklyn College. He takes courses in Philosophy, English, Spanish, and classical civilization. The Weavers (Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, & Pete Seeger) record Woody's "So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh".
Been Down The River Too Long Heaven My Home	1951
Circle Of Truth Down In Oklayhoma (circa) Down This River Too Long Love Thyself My Peace	1952	Woody moves to Topanga Canyon, California and meets Anneke Van Kirk.
Condorbird Jinga Linnng	1953	Woody marries Anneke Van Kirk. Woody and Anneke have a daughter named Lorina Lynn.
Your Sandal String	1954	Woody checks himself into Brooklyn State Hospital.
Bizzness Ain't Dead Blood Of My Lamb God's Promise Pass Away Take It Easy	1955	Woody and Anneke's marriage is disolved.
	1956	Woody's father, Charley Guthrie, dies. Woody is officially diagnosed with Huntington's Disease. Mar. 17- Benefit concert at Pythian Hall to raise money for Woody's children, this concert helps spark the folk revival. May- Woody voluntarily checks out of Brooklyn State Hospital. Woody hospitalized at Greystone Hospital, New Jersey.
	1959	Bob and Sidsel Gleason have Woody visit their home on Sunday's for a hootenanny with friends.
	1961	Bob Dylan visits Woody's home in Queens, NY and is brought to visit Woody in the hospital. April- Woody is transfered to Brooklyn State Hospital, Brooklyn, NY.
	1965	*Born To Win* is published.
	1966	Woody receives the Conservation Service Award from The U.S. Department of the Interior. July- Woody is transfered to Creedmore State Hospital, Queens, NY.
	1967	Oct. 3- Woody Guthrie passes away from Huntington's Disease at Creedmore State Hospital, Queens, NY.