Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019)

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: GUEST,Abby Sale
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 12:47 PM

Gee.

As was said above, expected but a gut-wrenching shock anyway.

It's funny - ALL those reflections above of what Dick taught, gave, shared, made available, served as example - I'd have said all of them as well. Though not necessarily said as well as.

What I've very often remarked to others are things Dick taught me of music and also of how one might live life. Life changing lessons.

My sadness to you, Susan, and to All. And my pleasure at having known the man.

Abby Sale

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: GUEST,Guest Azizi Powell
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 06:00 PM

My heartfelt condolences to you Susan.

And thank you Dick for all that you shared with others here on Mudcat and elsewhere.

Rest in peace.

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: EBarnacle
Date: 24 Feb 19 - 08:28 PM

Lady Hillary and I expect to be there ef'n the creeks don't rise.

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: GUEST,Lorraine Boyd-Thompson
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 08:34 AM

Susan,

So sorry to hear of your loss, my condolences to you and the family. May Dick Rest in Peace!

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 09:52 AM

Oh SUsan, I am so saddened to hear this news.. We had so much fun playing together . I wish I lived closer and or had the kind of life where I could get away from the shop a little more . Like Bill Sables said we only got together a few times but each one was magic and life afirming . He is a life long friend .. Hugs to you ... <><><><><>< Guy

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: GUEST,momnopp
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 10:36 AM

I, too, am immensely grateful for the contributions Dick has made to the lives of so many of us. Rest well, Dick, and love to Susan, Charlie and family.
Peace,
JudyOM
(momnopp)

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: bbc
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 08:27 PM

Hi, Susan,

I do expect to come, to support you & remember Dick. I will probably arrive Friday & leave Sunday.

Sending love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: bbc
Date: 01 Mar 19 - 10:46 PM

Refresh. Folks, did you see that Susan posted the date & time for Dick’s memorial?

bbc

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Mar 19 - 09:05 PM

Susan sent a list of Dick's favorite songs that might be sung at the memorial. The list is to good to miss, so I post it here:

I am thinking of some of his favorite songs. Aunt Clara was a favorite of his: he said it put him through college singing it at fraternity parties. I will sing it, unless someone else wants to. His most recent favorite seemed to be Seven Beers with the Wrong Woman. Someone else can sing that one. Some of his other favorites were:

    Boomer Johnson
    Coal in the Stone
    Gol Darned Wheel
    Normandy Orchards
    Have Some Madeira
    The Tenderfoot
    Westport
    Their Way
    The Winner
    Your Time’s Coming
    Zebra Dun



Some of my favorite memorial songs are:

    Parting Glass
    What’s the Life of a Man
    When I Cross the Bar (Crossing the Bar?)
    Farewell Shanty (Haul away for Heaven)
    Fiddler’s Green



Dick and I have been leading the ukulele group here at Brittany, Hummin’ and Strummin’, named by the previous leader. We will play and sing two songs: Simple Gifts and Home on the Range, for Dick’s interest in Shakers and cowboys.

Dick Greenhaus will live forever!
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial Info
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Mar 19 - 11:47 PM

Here are the details from Feb. 24.

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: bbc
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 05:24 PM

Refresh. Memorial—April 6, 2019.

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 06:15 AM

I am so sad to learn of Dick's passing. I have great memories of conversations with Duck and Sandy Paton from my years as a vendor at Old Songs. Generous with his time, generous with his knowledge.


Don Meixner

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: bbc
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 12:58 PM

I'm leaving, this Friday (April 5) for Pennsylvania, to celebrate the life of Dick Greenhaus. If you can't join us in person, how about sending a note to Susan. Without Dick & Digital Tradition, I would have never come to mudcat or had a personal relationship with the Patons.

bbc

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 03 Apr 19 - 12:14 AM

My condolences. I really enjoyed meeting him at Mystic some years ago, and reading his posts here at Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: bbc
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 05:31 AM

Refresh. Heading out, tomorrow, for Pennsylvania.

bbc

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: Peter T.
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 01:07 PM

Just tuned in (in time) to find out. Dick was a giant, and I was privileged to meet him once in the early Mudcat days.

We give to a tradition, and then we find that it gives to us, and one of the things it gave to us was Dick Greenhaus.

I study societies that have been sustainable for at least 1,000 years -- and if I was asked what was the one thing they had in common it would be traditions of ancestor worship.

Rest happy, ancestor.

yours ever,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 01:22 PM

Dick and Carol once graced our stage in Vancouver BC. He told me at the time when I asked him about the DT that he never expected that of all his life's work he'd be remembered for this wonderful creation.

Rika and I send our sad condolences to Susan - and wish we could be with you all at this memorial.

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: Abby Sale
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 02:27 PM

I am still dumbfounded. I'm deeply sad I can't be in Pennsylvania today at the memorial.
I had for Dick more fondness and respect that almost anyone I've met.

Of course I learned folk song from him but also a sense of character and morality and restraint.
I miss his presence.

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: bbc
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 10:03 PM

You were missed, Abby! It was a good gathering—music, hugs, remembrance, appreciation, love, & laughter.

bbc

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 11:56 PM

Definitely a good crowd. Lady Hillary and I met up with acquaintances from the cat and renewed old friendships. Not as much music as we expected but a lot of great conversation. Much too short a day.

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Apr 19 - 08:55 PM

It was important to be there and meet people I had never met...and re-meet people I had not seen in ages.... some, like bbc, since that 1999 picture.

EBarnacle & Lady Hillary were a delight... and the only time I had met wsiwyg/Susan and Greg was at a Mudgathering at their place when Dick & Susan were there. Max spoke eloquently, as did Susan of DT, who shared so many years with Dick making the Digital Tradition and amazing resource. Songs were sung in honor of Dick and stories I had never heard were told.
Because Dick & Susan had been regular attendees at the FSGW Getaway, a bunch of us from 'down South' made the trip.

   Such a brief few hours to absorb so many memories & thoughts...

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Apr 19 - 09:44 PM

What Bill said, and be still my beating heart-- Rita hugged with me (and I'm totally healthy so it was safe).

It was just a privilege to be there.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: GUEST,Helen Engelhardt
Date: 08 Apr 19 - 01:29 PM

April 5, 2019

Dear Susan,
I am so sorry for the loss of your life companion, and wish I could be there for the tribute you are holding for him tomorrow. He was one of the people I looked forward to seeing , along with you, at your table filled with fascinating books, especially the series dedicated to a particular song’s history or other scholarly information, and various unexpected recordings. He was a very important part of the texture of the gatherings we all, as individuals created and still create together.
My thoughts will be with you tomorrow,

Helen Engelhardt

Subject: RE: Obit: Dick Greenhaus (1929-2019) Memorial - Apr. 6
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 19 - 01:36 PM

Art Rosenbaum

Belatedly, condolences to Susan, and thanks for my brief but productive association with Dick, who had the will and perseverance to publish our project, "The Mary Lomax Ballad Book." Sad that Ed Cray, who edited the work, just passed away.