Music. Music. Music. Once I was working with a group of high-school students in a classroom that was undergoing minor renovations. I had asked them to define “music,” and the discussion that followed was vigorous and opinionated. A hard-hatted construction worker had entered the room and was busying himself with some repairs; he was standing […]
Pete Seeger enjoyed “…giving out bumper stickers reading “Gravity – it’s just a theory” and encouraging people to send them to anyone in Kansas, heartland of the anti-Darwinism, creationist movement.” The president of Kansas Citizens for Science tells a story about getting an unsolicited phone call from Pete Seeger one day: In a phone conversation […]
I wrote this piece three years ago. Now the news of Pete’s passing fills my computer screen. While I will certainly write something later today about Pete and his influence, this is a good place to begin: with a song, and a protest, and a woman, and our future, and a child, and Pete. ===================================================================== […]
As the Poughkeepsie Journal reports, they take environmental awareness seriously in New York’s Hudson River Valley. After all, it was here that engaged citizen action took shape in the form of the sloop Clearwater, the brainchild of folk master Pete Seeger. So when the Beacon Sloop Club (which handles many of the events associated with […]
“There will be a human race here in 100 years if we work together and find a way to teach others to work together.” What Pete aimed to achieve with the Clearwater was to get people down to the water’s edge with the promise of music and fun — with the assumption that once they were […]