Greetings,

If the rumor was about Huntington's disease, implicitly or explicitly, it is FALSE. I heard Nora Guthrie give a talk in which she said that she and her two surviving brothers, Arlo and Joady, are all negative for the deadly gene. It's a matter of record that two other of Woody Guthrie's children, Gwendolyn and Susan, have already died of Huntington's. Woody's three other children, Cathy Ann, Bill, and Lorina Lynn, all perished in accidents when they were too young for the symptoms to have appeared.

--- Steve