With my new book available just this past week, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, it seems a perfect time to celebrate another book by a different Botkin, the American classic, A Treasury of American Folklore by my father, Benjamin Botkin.It was a wonderful honor to learn recently that my father's book was selected as one of the first group of books for the Books That Shaped … [Read more...]
My Recollections of Woody Guthrie
I met Woody Guthrie when I was just 8 years old and he came to visit us when we were living in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.Woody came to meet my father, Benjamin Botkin, who was a well-known folklorist and had been head of the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress (now known as the American Folklife Center). Woody was brought to our house by Alan Lomax, who was also a … [Read more...]