"Do you know what a hoper is? Well, that's what your mama is, a hoper. She has more hopes per square inch than almost anybody else. Hopes about this and hopes about that, hopes about you, about me, about all of the relatives, hopes about lots of people, all people.

 

I ought to say, she's what's called a planner. I guess she makes more plans in a day than fascism could tear down in a century. I really believe this was what made me like her...Every detail of her life is not only a plan, but it is a dream, and the whole plan of a better world is one that she dreams about always. And she dreams it so plain and so strong that everybody who gets close to her notices it, and picks it up like a radio taking music out of the air."

We loved Marjorie for her hopes and we all have benefited from her plans!

We thank her for all her work founding the Huntington's Disease Society of America and for having the insight to collect and preserve Woody's creative works that now make up the Woody Guthrie Archive.

If you have a memory or story about Marjorie that you would like to share, please visit  www.MarjorieGuthrie.com . The website was created by her granddaughter Anna Canoni who is collecting stories about Marjorie to document her life's work.