Editing Arlo Guthrie (section)

==Early life and education==
Guthrie was born in the [[Coney Island]] neighborhood of [[Brooklyn]], the son of the [[folk singer]] and composer [[Woody Guthrie]] and dancer [[Marjorie Guthrie|Marjorie Mazia Guthrie]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He is the fifth, and oldest surviving, of Woody Guthrie's eight children; two older half-sisters died of [[Huntington's disease]] (of which Woody also died in 1967), an older half-brother died in a train accident, another half-sister died in a car accident, and a fourth sister died in childhood. His sister is the record producer [[Nora Guthrie]]. His mother was a professional dancer with the [[Martha Graham|Martha Graham Company]] and founder of what is now the [[Huntington's Disease Society of America]]. Arlo's father was from a Baptist family of English and Scottish descent; and his mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web|first=Nora |last=Guthie |url=http://www.voicesofoklahoma.com/woody_guthrie.html |title=Woody Guthrie |work=Voices of Oklahoma |access-date=May 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602161447/http://voicesofoklahoma.com/woody_guthrie.html |archive-date=June 2, 2012 }}</ref> His maternal grandmother was Yiddish poet [[Aliza Greenblatt]],<ref>{{cite web |first=Susanne A. |last=Shavelson |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/greenblat-aliza |title=Aliza Greenblatt: 1885–1975 |work=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=January 1, 2012}}</ref> and country/western singer [[Jack Guthrie]], who died when Arlo was an infant, was Arlo's cousin once removed.<ref name="jackguth">Logsdon, Guy, "[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/G/GU005.html Guthrie, Leon Jerry "Jack" (1915–1948)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805022924/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/G/GU005.html |date=August 5, 2011 }}," ''[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/ Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531193517/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/ |date=May 31, 2010 }}'' (accessed May 26, 2010).</ref>

Guthrie received religious training for his [[bar mitzvah]] from [[Rabbi]] [[Meir Kahane]], who formed the [[Jewish Defense League]]. "Rabbi Kahane was a really nice, patient teacher," Guthrie later recalled, "but shortly after he started giving me my lessons, he started going haywire. Maybe I was responsible."<ref>{{cite web |last=Tugend |first=Tom |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/a_jewish_visit_to_guthries_land_20041203/ |title=A Jewish Visit to Guthrie's Land |work=JewishJournal.com |date=December 2, 2004 |access-date=January 1, 2012 |archive-date=May 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529184625/http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/a_jewish_visit_to_guthries_land_20041203/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Guthrie converted to Catholicism in 1977,<ref>{{cite web|last=Jones |first=Landon Y. |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20069700,00.html |title=Remember That Happy Hippie? At 30, Arlo Guthrie Has Done His Own Hard Travelin' |website=People |date=December 5, 1977 |access-date=April 18, 2014}}</ref> before embracing interfaith beliefs later in his life.<ref>{{cite web|last=Goldscheider |first=Eric |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/05/nyregion/religion-journal-in-a-quest-arlo-guthrie-is-back-in-that-church.html |title=In a Quest, Arlo Guthrie Is Back in That Church |website=The New York Times |date=January 5, 2002 |access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref> "I firmly believe that different religious traditions can reside in one person, or one nation or even one world," Guthrie said in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jambands.com/features/2015/11/25/arlo-guthrie-alice-at-50/|title=Arlo Guthrie: "Alice" at 50 – Page 2 of 2|date=November 25, 2015|website=Jambands.com|access-date=April 24, 2020}}</ref> In 2020, following his retirement, Guthrie expressed a philosophical affinity for [[gospel music]], noting: "Gospel music to me is the biggest genre of protest music. If this world ain't doing it for you, and your hopes are in the next one{{snd}} you can't get more protest than that."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/11/23/arlo-guthrie-retirement|title=Folk Singer Arlo Guthrie Reflects On A Life Spent Making Music|first=Lauren|last=Daley|work=WBUR|date=November 23, 2020|access-date=April 25, 2021}}</ref>

Guthrie attended Woodward School in [[Clinton Hill, Brooklyn]], from first through eighth grades. In 1965, he graduated from [[Stockbridge School]] in [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]]. He spent the summer of 1965 in London, eventually meeting [[Karl Dallas]], who connected Guthrie with London's folk rock scene and became a lifelong friend of his.<ref name="MSobit">{{cite web|url=https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-152b-Karl-Dallas|title=Karl Dallas|date=June 30, 2016|work=[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Morning Star]]|access-date=September 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630192044/http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-152b-Karl-Dallas|archive-date=June 30, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> He briefly attended [[Rocky Mountain College]], in [[Billings, Montana]]. He received an honorary doctorate from [[Siena College]] in 1981 and from [[Westfield State College]] in 2008.

As a singer, songwriter, and lifelong political activist, Guthrie carries on the legacy of his father. He was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award on September 26, 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peaceabbey.org/cofc-award/award-recipients/ |title=Courage of Conscience Award Recipients |work=PeaceAbbey.org |publisher=The Peace Abbey |access-date=October 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610041225/http://www.peaceabbey.org/cofc-award/award-recipients/ |archive-date=June 10, 2014  }}</ref>