Bess Lomax Hawes

[Dav Vandenbroucke]

Bess Lomax Hawes, daugher of Alan, member of the Almanac Singers, and
co-writer of "The MTA," has died at age 88:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/01/AR2009120104228.html

Dav Vandenbroucke
davanden at cox dot net

[Dav Vandenbroucke]

Oops. That should be "daughter of John." Teach me to proofread.

[Abby Sale]

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:09:03 -0500, Dav Vandenbroucke
<dav_and_france...@compuserve.com> wrote:

>Oops. That should be "daughter of John." Teach me to proofread.

OK. Thanx.

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[Michael Black]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Dav Vandenbroucke wrote:

> Bess Lomax Hawes, daugher of Alan, member of the Almanac Singers, and
> co-writer of "The MTA," has died at age 88:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/01/AR2009120104228.html
>

They're all getting old.

I saw Arlo and family here in October, in some ways it was a
disappointment since there wasn't much of him, with everyone on the
stage. Yet, it seemed like he was content to sit back a bit, be the
old man of folk, or whatever. (The show was good, and having various
women on stage did a lot for harmonies, and it was certainly different
from the last time I saw him, when it was Arlo, backed by a band, just
with so many people on stage, there was less time for Arlo.)

Then I realized that when I saw Pete Seeger for the first time in 1978,
he was 59. I was younger, but I also think the beard made him seem "old".

Arlo is now 62, three years older than Pete was when I first saw him. I'm
about the age Arlo was the last time he came to town, in 1996.

Of course, having turned fifty the week before Arlo came to town, I
figured that caused Arlo to come to town, 62 no longer looks that old,
I'm practically his age.

Michael