Dani, I've read it, but it's been a while. I need to look back at it. I've never read Woody's "Bound for Glory" and have been meaning to for a long time. See below for some more incentive.

The Thomas Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa has an exhibit up through the end of April, but they've got quite a number of images online, too: Woody at One Hundred: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration 1912-2012.

The Tulsa conference is now done. I see that my link above was broken, here's the correct link, and the correct conference title: Different Shades of Red: Woody Guthrie and the Oklahoma Experience at 100. There's no after-the-fact report on the conference at the link, though.

I looked for more...

The Tulsa World (local newspaper/site) has created a website celebrating Woody: Woody Guthries Comes Home.

There's a lengthy article there written prior to the conference: Woody Guthrie's politics still volatile after his death.

Robin Wheeler of the Riverfront Times (St. Louis) has a report on the conference: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Kicks Off in Tulsa, and also on the tribute concert: Arlo Guthrie, Rosanne Cash, the Flaming Lips and More at the Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert.

Wheeler and Scott Allen have started a special blog with an interesting premise: Bound for Glory 100. In addition to what may arise from the invitation below, she's blogging her own Woody-related thoughts, activities, and links there.

Here's what we're asking you to do:

1. Read Woody Guthrie's "Bound for Glory" at some point in 2012 to mark his 100th birthday.

2. Write something about the experience. Anything. Book report. How it made you feel. What you think of America. What the story and music mean to you. Whatever the words prompt you to say. Say it. You're not going to say anything wrong.

3. Email your writing to boundforglory1912@gmail.com with a bit about yourself. We'll put it on this blog. With your name on it, of course. Your work belongs to you.

4. Spread the word.

That's it. No catch. We're not coming after you if you say you want to participate and don't. There's no deadline, other than December 31, 2012.

What's the point? The point is to get as many people as possible to take a look at Woody Guthrie. From people who've never heard of him, to the experts. Kids to adults. Music nerds, literary nerds, and people who aren't nerds at all.

Don't think you can write? We don't care. We want to know what you have to say anyway.

Submitted writings will only be edited for typos. Keeping your words as you want them said.

And that's it. For now. We'll see what happens as the year progresses.

Currently, 25 people have already volunteered to participate. We've also had volunteers host the website and design the graphics. We're thankful for their work and spirit of cooperation. This is a cooperative effort, first and foremost.

Let's see what a bunch of individuals can do with their voices. Woody would approve.

Wheeler has a great post about visiting the Gilcrease Museum exhibit on the Bound for Glory 100 blog: "All You Can Write is What You Can See".

~ Becky in Tucson