Sailors from the Caribbean would reportedly come up to cleanse their boats. Local lore has it the chemical stew was so potent and so toxic it was seen as a cure for bore worms and other parasites feeding off wooden hulls. The main traffic was cement and oil barges. The river was a raging sewer when Seeger set out to save it in the 1960s, a liquid dump for industries that grew along its banks, full of PCBs from the electrical industry, sewage discharges, pesticides, and other contaminants. The folk singer also campaigned for the shutdown of the ageing Indian Point nuclear reactor.īut it was the Hudson river – close to where Seeger lived in a log cabin he built himself in the 1940s – that was the main focus of his activism. He added an extra verse to his anthem “This land was made for you and me” by singing: “This land was made to be frack-free.” Last September, he put in a surprise appearance with Willie Nelson and Neil Young at a Farm Aid benefit. Seeger's environmental activism didn't stop with the river. He started the train, and we all jumped on the moving train.” “But for a lot of us, Pete was the first guy.
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