For years, Pete sang for causes and then became a cause--a cause celebre, because of his staying power, his devotion to change on every level as well as his effort to be the change he wanted to see.
The environmental activist Harvey Wasserman tells of visiting Pete and his late wife Toshi who died on the eve of their 70th wedding anniversary.
"Pete and Toshi's hillside cabin overlooking the Hudson, not far enough from Indian Point. (The Nuclear plant he opposed.) With utter nonchalance Pete had built one of the world's first electric vehicles by gutting the engine from an old pick-up and filling it with car batteries. It got him to town and back. It did the job, " recalls Wasserman.
Like the Clearwater, a boat to sail the Hudson. To do it well while making a point about the Earth and what she needs. They chopped wood and made preserves and it was all so comfortably grounded."
Pete stayed informed and wrote songs that touched on contemporary issues or picked up songs by the large network of folk artists who revolved around him. He was a singing newspaper all by himself.
Oh, publishers are such interesting people;
Their policy's an acrobatic thing.
They shout they represent the common people,
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