Almanacs

I still have some old World Almanacs in my collection, but until recently have not purchased one.

Dusk Before the Dawn » 2010 » June 2010

I think I know who has those Davy Crockett Almanacs.

Crime Update Bill Crider 2008

Daniel Lorello, 54, is accused of taking the rare items from the New York State Library, including Davy Crockett Almanacs, Currier and Ives lithographs and the 1865 railroad timetable for Abraham Lincoln's funeral train.

Crime Update Bill Crider 2008

The Almanacs distributed the lyrics to the 20,000 people at the rally.

Peter Dreier: Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes 2009

Besides Bess, the Almanacs included Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Millard Lampell, as well as a constantly revolving group of others (including Woody Guthrie) who performed for various left-wing groups.

Peter Dreier: Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes 2009

While living in New York she met (and eventually married) Baldwin "Butch" Hawes, an illustrator who occasionally sang with the Almanacs.

Peter Dreier: Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes 2009

In the Almanacs '1941 version, a group of crooked politicians who were trying to crush the transit workers union board a "yellow scab train."

Peter Dreier: Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes 2009

She moved into the Almanacs 'communal apartment - a highly usual arrangement at the time.

Peter Dreier: Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes 2009

Bess remembered the song that the Almanacs had sung at Madison Square Garden eight years earlier and suggested reworking it for the O'Brien campaign.

Peter Dreier: Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes 2009

Not only did Bess know more folk songs than anyone else, but when the Almanacs needed songs for union rallies and picket lines, to dramatize particular issues, or to plug political candidates, she could write new songs on short notice -- "sometimes on the spot," she recalled.

Peter Dreier: Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes 2009