I am listening to an interesting National Public Radio story about people who would write songs about FDR and send them to the White House, including some recordings played from the old records that were recorded and sent to FDR. One unknown singer that was played was Scotty the Drifter. You can probably hear sound clips of this report at the NPR website in the Weekend Edition section for April 21. For decades, the boxes of songs sat in the Roosevelt library unexamined, yet the song lyrics really gave a sense of what people thought about him and what they were going through in the depression. NPR's report included a great gospel song telling the story of FDR's administration from the African American point of view.

Alice