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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
A 3-legged poodle brings back memories
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Utah Philips brings back memories. A friend told a story, not sure where she heard it, of him being invited to speak to graduating high school students. Someone from the Army is going to speak to the students after Utah.
He tells them:
"You're about to be told that you are America's most valuable natural resource. HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT THEY DO TO NATURAL RESOURCES?! RUN FOR THE HILLS!"
You know where that's from?
I don't -- except I first heard the story from "Sally" in the early 70s. I don't think Bruce was famous enough yet to be invited to speak anywhere so it may have been when he was running for office, the House in Utah I believe. The U. Utah Phillips label (after T. Texas Tyler) hadn't caught on yet and he hadn't dropped the U. yet. So my guess would be when he was running for office, which was the early sixties, I believe. By the way, "Sally" and Bruce were in the same string band, "Sally" and the Valley Boys, which for a time was the house band at the Weiser Idaho old-time fiddlers contest. I met "Sally" in grad school in 1967 and we lived together 1967 until 1978 when she "came out." See my short film "Deconstructing Sally."
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