Bess Lomax Hawes, with the Almanac Singers, from left: Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Ms. Hawes, Pete Seeger, Arthur Stern, and Sis Cunningham.
(Baldwin Hawes/ File 1942)
Bess L. Hawes; folklorist co-wrote ‘The MTA’
Bess Lomax Hawes, with the Almanac Singers, from left: Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Ms. Hawes, Pete Seeger, Arthur Stern, and Sis Cunningham.
(Baldwin Hawes/ File 1942)
When Bess Lomax Hawes left her home in Cambridge almost 60 years ago, she also left a slice of local folklore: a harried soul named Charlie forever rattling through the subterranean tunnels of Boston. (Full article: 933 words)
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