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...IMAGE that Peter Seeger conveys, in everything he does, is that of a "decent" man. His behavior in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1955 was a model of bravery and pride. When asked about his affiliations with the Communist Party, USA, Seeger refused to answer, saying that it was none of the committee's business, and that he resented the insinuation that he was somehow unpatriotic because he had aligned himself with the poor and the oppressed in their struggle against injustice. "I have sung in hobo jungles, I have sung for the Rockefellers," Seeger...
...comes across as an extraordinarily genuine personality. Unlike the barrage of middle class suburban kids who took up guitar in the early '60s and then wrote sentimental lyrics about people they had never seen. Pete Seeger was really there. In the '30s and '40s he had travelled all across the country with Woody Guthrie. Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, Cisco Houston and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, from the cottonfields of California to the West Virginian mining towns. "...I am proud of the fact that my songs seem to cut across and find perhaps a unifying thing, basic humanity..." Seeger said in response...
...braving the wet chill night in Concord was gathered for the ostensible purpose of "sending a message to Wall Street" in protest of big business. But it was clear from the carefreeness of the crowd that they were more interested in listening to favorites by Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie than in making any political statement beyond proclaiming their celebration an embodiment of the "true" spirit of the Revolution...
...caravan will leave Cambridge Common at 10 p.m. tonight for the People's Bicentennial Commission's demonstration at the Concord Bridge. The program from midnight to morning will include appearances by Ario Guthric. Pete Seeger '40, Dr. Barry Commoner, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology...
...Peter Seeger Beacon...