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09 Mar 06 - 07:59 AM (#1689082) Subject: Happy! - Mar 9 (Will Geer) From: Abby Sale Happy Birthday! Will Geer was born 3/9/1902 in Frankfort, Indiana (d.4/22/1978) Agitator / radical / actor / folksinger / folklorist / ceilidhist / blacklistee Geer toured U.S. government work camps in the 1930s, singing with Woody Guthrie and Burl Ives. He introduced Pete Seeger to Woody Guthrie at a migrant-worker benefit concert, thus inventing modern folk music. [thanx Ed Stephan] Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved What are Happy's all about? See Clicky |
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09 Mar 06 - 01:26 PM (#1689371) Subject: RE: Happy! - Mar 9 (Will Geer) From: Stilly River Sage I did some research on Will Geer last year after I read the obituary of his ex wife (Herta Ware) and was amazed at the number of things he had his hand in. SRS |