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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Seeger Obits

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:12 am

Seeger reportedly died yesterday — Monday, Jan. 27, 2014.

Source: The Porterville (California) Recorder

Posted: Monday, January 27, 2014, 11:25 pm (CA time)

Associated Press 

Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died Monday at the age of 94.

Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, said his grandfather died peacefully in his sleep around 9:30 p.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days. Family members were with him.

"He was chopping wood 10 days ago," Cahill-Jackson recalled.

From his New York Times  obituary —

"Planning to be a journalist, Mr. Seeger attended Harvard,
where he founded a radical newspaper and joined the
Young Communist League."

From yesterday morning's Log24 rosemary link —

"I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places."

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