In 1964, I was in eighth grade at the American School in Japan in Tokyo. Being the child of left-leaning Protestant missionaries and a recent visitor to Vietnam, where a U.S. counterinsurgency war was brewing, I was pretty aware of what was going on in the world. But mostly I was into teenage stuff, being cool, girls, and rock & roll. One afternoon over the loudspeakers came the announcement that the “famous folk singer Pete Seeger” would appear that day in the auditorium. I had visions of some kind of cowboy like Burl Ives, and sat way in the back … Continue reading Take it from Pete