[GPSCC-chat] Great DVD - Studs Terkel

[Wes Rolley]

One of my childhood memories was listening to Studs Terkel on the 
radio.  Every Sunday, as church let out and my parents lined up to shake 
hands with the minister, I would grab my Dad's car keys and race to the 
car to turn on the radio and get my education in the folk music of the 
world.  This was in the very early 1950's.  Studs introduced me to the 
Weavers, Woodie Guthrie, Jean Redpath, John Jacob Niles, Leadbelly, 
Mehalia Jackson and many more.

The Santa Clara County Library has 2 copies of an HBO Documentary, Studs 
Terkel: Listening to America. (41 min)  I just finished watching it and 
highly recommend it to all.   He was unique, a one of a kind journalist 
and historian and the documentary captures for all.  The copies are 
available in Morgan Hill and Milpitas but can be gotten at any branch 
just by requesting.

His was a standard of truth seeking curiosity that, for all the programs 
with have today, we just don't see / hear.   I recently passed on my 
copies of Hard Times and Division Street because other should have the 
opportunity to find what he discovered about us as Americans.

Terkel passed away on Oct. 31, 2008 at the age of 96.