Last night, Nora Guthrie was at Davis-Kidd Booksellers signing copies of a new volume of Woody Guthrie’s drawings. She was charming and funny and radiated warmth, entertaining us with stories and giving sage advice.

She and her brother were raised learning about all the world’s religions. On her birth certificate, under religion, her father put “all or none.” For anyone who struggles to come up with good answers to the questions that so often get asked down here in the buckle of the bible belt (”What church do you go to?” “What’s your faith?”), those three little words speak volumes.

This post was written by Mary Mancini