Hi, im debby lam, the coordinating producer on our cities tour team. This year we visited 24 cities exploring their unique history and literary life. Were going to show you several stops from fresno, california. Its the statists largest inland city and serves as a major hub for agricultural production. Theyre flying me back the Mexican Border it comes from Woody Guthries lyrics. It story goes when the plane crash happened in 1948 and the news reports went across it country Woody Guthrie was in nuvg at the time and of course one of the great sort of rebellious folk icons that he is, he heard the news reports and he really was upset at the omission of the names. He himself had traveled to the valley, so he was familiar with the plight of migrant farm works at the time. And he was upset by the omission of the names. He said thats no way to treat our brothers and sisters, and so he wrote a poem about it. And in his poem he attempts to restore the dignity of those anonymous passengers by gi
Exploring their unique history and literary life. Were going to show you several stops from fresno, california. Its the statists largest inland city and serves as a major hub for agricultural production. Theyre flying me back the Mexican Border it comes from Woody Guthries lyrics. It story goes when the plane crash happened in 1948 and the news reports went across it country Woody Guthrie was in nuvg at the time and of course one of the great sort of rebellious folk icons that he is, he heard the news reports and he really was upset at the omission of the names. He himself had traveled to the valley, so he was familiar with the plight of migrant farm works at the time. And he was upset by the omission of the names. He said thats no way to treat our brothers and sisters, and so he wrote a poem about it. And in his poem he attempts to restore the dignity of those anonymous passengers by giving them fake names, assigning them names. And he says in his poem, goodbye to my juan, goodbye, ro
Its the statists largest inland city and serves as a major hub for agricultural production. Theyre flying me back the Mexican Border it comes from Woody Guthries lyrics. It story goes when the plane crash happened in 1948 and the news reports went across it country Woody Guthrie was in nuvg at the time and of course one of the great sort of rebellious folk icons that he is, he heard the news reports and he really was upset at the omission of the names. He himself had traveled to the valley, so he was familiar with the plight of migrant farm works at the time. And he was upset by the omission of the names. He said thats no way to treat our brothers and sisters, and so he wrote a poem about it. And in his poem he attempts to restore the dignity of those anonymous passengers by giving them fake names, assigning them names. And he says in his poem, goodbye to my juan, goodbye, rose litta, you wont have a name, all they will call you will be deportee. That really caught my attention, and is