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Joan Baez Falls from Treehouse
Joan Baez, the legendary folksinger, who had a treehouse built 20 feet up an oak tree in her Woodside backyard, fell as she descended from her woody perch on Wednesday. She is now "resting comfortably," after being treated at Stanford Hospital for minor injuries, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
"I sleep in a tree all summer long," Baez, 69, told a blogger in 2008. "I climb up a ladder, with ropes and things. The birds are right there in the morning. Sometimes they're flying so close to my head I can feel the wind."
Catch a vintage video of Baez singing "Blowin in the Wind" below.
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DIANE WESTER
I remember the duo, Hanoi Jane Fonda and Joan Baez. While I was raising two kids, they were against everything American except the almighty dollar.I felt fear from what they and that group did to tear down our country. Birds of a feather......