hildebrand here: Greenway was well-known for his collecting of protest songs, and for being close to Woody Guthrie, and also for suppressing some of Woody's later work because he felt it showed too much of Woody's mental deterioration. He was known as a leftist, but then I believe he had a stroke, and when he recovered, he was a rabid right-winger. I was in Boulder in the summer of 1965, when Greenway was on the faculty of the U there. There was one of those anti-war "teach-ins" one night -- a sort of gathering in a hall with guest speakers, and Greenway opined in the campus paper that perhaps these students wouldn't be so anti-war when they saw the VietCong charging down Boulder's main street. had he lost it or what.
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