" Move that Red Pickup or it will be towed" Pete Seeger passed away...yest..
" Move that Red Pickup or it will be towed" screamed the head of our Bus Company at my school to me over the phone....... I was the HS principal and some school buses were reporting a red pickup truck was parked in front of the HS in the Fire Zone at the end of the school day...I answered the bus company chief with a " it ain't going anywhere so tell your bus drivers to park around it." He started screaming over the phone threatning to call my superintendent about me.. I let him rant over the phone for a minute or two and then told him the pick up truck was Pete Seegers....there was a silence on the other end of the phone and of course I said something like..." please call Mrs A {our superintendent} and tell her you want Petes pick up towed....and tomorrow start looking for another job in transportation. " Mr Box,no problem just a communication problem.....
Pete Seeger was an icon...a great folk singer who played music with Woodie Guthrie in the day...he marched with King in Selma,protested the Vietnam war and was on the blacklist as a commie...whether you disagreed with his political stand he was pretty famous for his songs like " turn,turn,turn,If I had a hammer,and his " We shall over come"...He lived in the same town for 70 years and being a principal at the HS where he came from was pretty awesome...In the 1960's he was refused to speak at the HS...regardless of his political beliefs what he did the past 15 years was great...he cleaned the Hudson River with his boat " The Clearwater"...the past 10 years he would drive up to our Ele. school{ Forrestal} in his pickup and walk into the school and play his banjo with our kids..he started a group called the Rivertown Kids....they played all over with him...he would come to the HS because we had a TV-Radio studio and perform and record...he would sit with HS kids and tell them about Selma,Martin Luther King,etc...we had a talent show at the HS..at the last minute we called him to see if he wanted to come and watch..he came and played....
His wife who I got to meet several times, Toshi was the sweetest lady..she just passed away last yr at 91....He was cutting wood in his yard 10 days ago before he got sick.
But he would drive up to the HS in his 1965 red pick up....park in the fire zone right in front of the school....with blue jeans on and his banjo strapped on his back..walk right into school,talk the security gd about his parents,talk to the custodian because he grew up with her parents,talk to the hall monitor because he knew his parents and walk right into the TV studio and say lets teach these kids something...
"Move that red pickup"....hell no... Mr Seeger can park anywhere he wants..
" Move that Red Pickup or it will be towed" screamed the head of our Bus Company at my school to me over the phone....... I was the HS principal and some school buses were reporting a red pickup truck was parked in front of the HS in the Fire Zone at the end of the school day...I answered the bus company chief with a " it ain't going anywhere so tell your bus drivers to park around it." He started screaming over the phone threatning to call my superintendent about me.. I let him rant over the phone for a minute or two and then told him the pick up truck was Pete Seegers....there was a silence on the other end of the phone and of course I said something like..." please call Mrs A {our superintendent} and tell her you want Petes pick up towed....and tomorrow start looking for another job in transportation. " Mr Box,no problem just a communication problem.....
Pete Seeger was an icon...a great folk singer who played music with Woodie Guthrie in the day...he marched with King in Selma,protested the Vietnam war and was on the blacklist as a commie...whether you disagreed with his political stand he was pretty famous for his songs like " turn,turn,turn,If I had a hammer,and his " We shall over come"...He lived in the same town for 70 years and being a principal at the HS where he came from was pretty awesome...In the 1960's he was refused to speak at the HS...regardless of his political beliefs what he did the past 15 years was great...he cleaned the Hudson River with his boat " The Clearwater"...the past 10 years he would drive up to our Ele. school{ Forrestal} in his pickup and walk into the school and play his banjo with our kids..he started a group called the Rivertown Kids....they played all over with him...he would come to the HS because we had a TV-Radio studio and perform and record...he would sit with HS kids and tell them about Selma,Martin Luther King,etc...we had a talent show at the HS..at the last minute we called him to see if he wanted to come and watch..he came and played....
His wife who I got to meet several times, Toshi was the sweetest lady..she just passed away last yr at 91....He was cutting wood in his yard 10 days ago before he got sick.
But he would drive up to the HS in his 1965 red pick up....park in the fire zone right in front of the school....with blue jeans on and his banjo strapped on his back..walk right into school,talk the security gd about his parents,talk to the custodian because he grew up with her parents,talk to the hall monitor because he knew his parents and walk right into the TV studio and say lets teach these kids something...
"Move that red pickup"....hell no... Mr Seeger can park anywhere he wants..
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