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My Mother Playing The Violin And My Father And Grandfather Playing The Piano, Classical Stuff.

It Was Rachel Carson's Famous Book 'silent Spring' That Got Me Involved With The Environment. I Read It In The New Yorker, In Installments. Up To Then, I'd Thought The Main Job To Do Is Help The Meek Inherit The Earth. And I Still, That's A Job That's Got To Be Done. But I Realized If We Didn't Do Something Soon, What The Meek Would Inherit Would Be A Pretty Poisonous Place To Live.

I Learned By Transcribing Songs Out Of The Library Of Congress Collection In Washington Where I Was Working. I Got A Job When I Just Turned Twenty In 1939 And Alan [lomax] Needed Some Help. I Listened To Hundreds Of Records Every Week.

Alan [lomax] And His Father Started Off Changing The Definition Of Folk Music From Something Ancient And Anonymous To Something Very Contemporary.