Joe Hickerson, a beloved archivist at the Library of Congress, died last week in Portland, Oregon. He was 89. For more than three decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music. NPR ...
It was at a leftist summer camp in the Catskills that Joe Hickerson came up with the final two verses to Pete Seeger’s popular song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” The new verses turned the song ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Hickerson, a singer-songwriter who served as the lead archivist for folk music at the Library of Congress for 25 years, has ...
To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so much of what is known about folk music exists at all. When he died on ...