I don't remember the first time Pete Seeger wrote me a letter (the early 1990s?) but I remember thinking, "whoa, Pete Seeger wrote me a letter! And it's like 2 pages long!" It was only over the course of many years, as he continued to write to me, in long hand, often in red ink… penmanship slowly deteriorating as the years passed... that I sort-of got used to the idea.

Pete was a great comrade to me and I tried to be a good comrade in return, to come when he called. The reason I can claim to be his comrade at all...