Janet Kobren on Pete Seeger Encounters

Janet Kobren    In the summer of 1959 I was one of 32 young-adult 16-year-olds that spent the summer at the University Settlement Work Camp In Beacon, NY near where Pete Seeger lived. The “work campers” supported the regular camp that was set up by the University Settlement House in Manhattan to provide “underprivileged” children from lower east side Manhattan with the opportunity to spend a summer in “nature” and away from their hard life … Continue reading Janet Kobren on Pete Seeger Encounters