Honoring Woody Guthrie - NYTimes.com I was delighted to read your Jan. 2 editorial "Homeward Goes the Dust Bowl Balladeer." As the organizer of the University of Tulsa's "Different Shades of Red" symposium commemorating the centennial of Woody Guthrie's birth, to be held March 9 and 10, I can report with great confidence our intention to present Oklahoma's native son, and our national treasure, in his full humanity, warts and all. Our program features many of the very best scholars - of Guthrie, Dust Bowl Oklahoma and American political (and musical) culture. Our partners at the Grammy Museum have arranged for a musical celebration featuring prominent artists, to be held at Tulsa's historic Brady Theater. And the Gilcrease Museum, a Tulsa and American treasure, will provide an exhibition of Guthrie materials, recently acquired for the University of Tulsa and the Gilcrease courtesy of the George Kaiser Family Foundation. Come one, come all. This symposium - like "this land" - "was made for you and me." The writer is chairman of Western American history at the University of Tulsa.