article_snippet.sent: American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who wrote hundreds of songs and made famous recordings of Red River Valley and This Land is Your Land, was committed in 1956 with Huntington's Disease.
article_snippet.sent: Even as Guthrie was in Guthrie final years before Guthrie died in 1967, folk revivalists were basing a new scene on Guthrie's genius in New York's Greenwich Village.
article_snippet.sent: One of Guthrie visitors in Greystone Park was a 19-year-old Bob Dylan.
article_snippet.sent: the asylum once had famous visitors, with a young Bob Dylan regularly coming to visit resident patient American folk singer Woody Guthrie .