Nerd: Jan 09 -

"...Warde and Pat later went to Northern California to work on the Shasta Dam. Sidney Robertson Cowell recorded them both in Wisconsin and in California."

“Chapter XV
The Telegram That Never Came

In a bend of the Sacramento is the town of Redding, California. The word had scattered out that twenty-five hundred workers was needed to build the Kenneth Dam, and already eight thousand work hands had come to do the job….

I fell off the train with my guitar over my shoulder and asked a guy when the work was going to start. He said it was supposed to get going last month. Telegram hadn't come from Washington yet.

“Last month hell,” another old boy said, over his shoulder. “We've been camped right here up and down this slough for over three months, hearin' it would git started any day now!”
[Guthrie, Woody, Bound for Glory, 2nd ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1968, p.325)]

*Kenneth
Founded as Kennet, then Kennett, two “t” no “h.” The Federal project was “Shasta.”

The memo was out in 1935. By July '37, when the nonfictional Woody Guthrie was supposed to have been in Redding, the project prelims were already underway. Enter Warde & Pat Ford.

They finished up in '45. The town of Kennett is under Shasta Lake.

See also: DTStudy: King John and the Bishop (Child #45)

Wikis:
Kennett, CA

Shasta Dam