First trip to the City since pre-COVID times (April 28, 2022)

Former Williamson County Sun colleagues (but more importantly friends for nearly 40 years) Connie and Sharon and I took our first trip back to NYC since 2018. Our first stop was the Woody Guthrie exhibit to pay tribute to the musician/poet who grew up in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. I love his recognition that Life goes on.

Serendipitously Woody's daughter Nora was there and took the time to visit with us.  A very "salt of the earth" person.  Friend Sharon admired her white hair and confided that she plans to go gray in the coming year. Nora assured her she "lost no friends or lovers" when she went natural.

That's Nora on the far right, in the late 1950s. We met her because Connie and Sharon observed that Arlo (of Alice's Restaurant fame)  looked "dorky" (luckily before Nora was within hearing range) then wondered who else was in the photo. That's when Nora tapped Connie on the shoulder to say, "I can answer questions about that photo." 

 Woody's New Year's resolutions one year during World War II.  At the time, he was in hospital for the genetic Huntington's disease, which would eventually take him like it took his mother.