Beacon, NY is also where Pete Seeger and his wife Toshi lived and raised their children. Pete was not only a fabulous musician and songwriter in the folk scene in the second half of the 20th century, he’s also instrumental in waking people up to the fact that the Hudson River was not dead and lifeless. He dreamed up the idea of the Hudson River sloop Clearwater, and Toshi did the planning and orchestrated the fundraising to make it happen. The boat took school kids out on the river, where the crew taught them about the river, the life in the river, and what all the pollution in the river was doing to that life.
Beacon, NY is also where Pete Seeger and his wife Toshi lived and raised their children. Pete was not only a fabulous musician and songwriter in the folk scene in the second half of the 20th century, he’s also instrumental in waking people up to the fact that the Hudson River was not dead and lifeless. He dreamed up the idea of the Hudson River sloop Clearwater, and Toshi did the planning and orchestrated the fundraising to make it happen. The boat took school kids out on the river, where the crew taught them about the river, the life in the river, and what all the pollution in the river was doing to that life.
I had no idea! Where's the Pete Seeger bust in Beacon!
Pete would never let anyone name anything after him — he was mortified at the very thought! After he died, the town named the riverfront park after Pete and Toshi. https://www.riverpool.org/pete-toshi-seeger-river-front-park/
Alas, George was simply "A Head of his time"
I'll see myself out!