Woody Guthrie and the impact of a family history of Huntington’s
“And my mother … that was a little too much for her nerves, her something.” This comment, made in 1940, was the first time American singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie had publicly alluded to his mother’s Huntington’s disease. Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma,…