This building still exists (with the large Rosevear's sign above it), but the music shop has moved just down the street to 110 East Wishkah Street.

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In the early months of 1940, Woody Guthrie arrived in New York City. Dubbed "the Oklahoma cowboy" by his contemporaries, he was embraced by the leftist folk scene at the time.

On constant radio rotation at the time was Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." Guthrie found the song distasteful- unrealistic and complacent. On February 23, 1940, in a small boarding house at the corner of 43rd st and 6th Ave in NYC, he went about writing an answer to Berlin. Guthrie's response was the song "This Land is Your Land."

Adapting the melody from "When The World's On Fire" by the Carter family, "This Land is Your Land" has become a powerful national song, still open for interpretation today.

One of the original versions of the song had a final verse that goes like this:

"As I went walking, I saw a sign there,
And on the sign there, It said 'Private Property'
But on the other side, it didn't say nothing!
That side was made for you and me."

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Gene and Dean Ween recorded The Pod and Pure Guava at "the Pod," a fly-ridden shack they shared on a horse farm on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township.

They recorded both albums on a Tascam 4-track, and according to Deaner, they didn't even bother buying new tapes for Pure Guava but simply recorded over demo tapes that other bands had given them on the road.

This is arguably the band's "brown"-est period- a term they devised to describe anything "f*cked up in a good way."

As their producer and sometimes bass player Andrew Weiss put it:

"...you know, stuff's always so well-orchestrated, or tries to be, when people make records, but the best sound you're gonna get out of stomp box is when the battery's right at the point of dying and it sounds like it's being strangled or something. So it's kind of like those glorious mistakes are what you're lookin' for."

(Chocolate and Cheese, Hank Shteamer, 33 1/3 books)

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A New Hope live-music/dive-bar institution since 1972, J & P's has given many local bands a chance to practice in front of an audience.

Hometown heroes Ween have a photo print hanging at John and Peter's, the same print of Ringing Rocks that was in the liner notes of Chocolate and Cheese. The photo was taken by Danny Clinch, an Annie Leibovitz protégé.

Ween used to play the occasional surprise show at this bar.

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Located on the southwest side of the Young Street Bridge in Aberdeen, WA is Kurt Cobain Riverfront Park. Dedicated to the memory of the singer/songwriter, the park is a small, river-front community park that has a number of sculptures, plaques and signs regarding Cobain.

The Nirvana frontman used to hang out under the bridge as a youth (his boyhood home is two blocks away). The song "Something in the Way" recounts his experiences there.

While it has been embellished that Cobain used to sleep under the bridge when he was homeless, this story has not been verified (although he did sleep nearby in the waiting room at Grays Harbor Community Hospital during homeless periods).

Under the Young Street Bridge there is graffiti and numerous messages tagged in memoriam of Cobain by his fans.

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