title: Woody Guthrie Artworks
author:  Steven Brower 
description: Steven Brower is an award-winning graphic designer and writer working in New York City.Nora Guthrie, directs the Woody Guthrie Archives, which opened in 1996.
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  ## [**DEDICATION**](../Text/nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-1)
  
  
  _For Jamie_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [**EPIGRAPH**](../Text/nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-2)
  
  
  **SWEETHEARTS SAT IN THE DARK AND SPARKED.**
  
  
  _—Woody Guthrie,_
  
  
  _“So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust),”_
  
  
  _a Dust Bowl song_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [ADRI](../Text/nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-3)
  
  
  ## [PART 1](../Text/nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-3)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [CHAPTER 1](../Text/nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-5)
  
  
  _From above, Miami looked as_ if it were blinking itself awake; the rising sun
  reflected against the city’s windows. Adri—in fuzzy extra-large pajama pants,
  her messy black hair pulled back in a rubber band—had pulled over on the
  shoulder of the Miami bridge. Her Theta had blown a circuit board and she
  needed to fix it. Now, she took in the view one last time: it wasn’t much, but
  she’d never see it again.
  
  
  The sky lay low and gray over South Beach. T