![]() ![]() He decided to trust me as a point of principle because that was the right thing to do. To him I was a person doing a job and writing about a woman whom he respected and loved. Pete was far more used to this role of contingent intimacy than I was. We want so much from them and we don’t want them to know it. But I met him and talked with him and wanted information from him ranging from fact to revelation in this most peculiar role of biographer-of-a-relative.īiographers have a complicated relationship to honesty when they deal with family of their subjects. His eyes looked upward too, as if the heavens were telling him what to sing and how to carry on. I used to think of him as a folk Orpheus, particularly in those photos where he lifted up his voice to the sky. Ruth, he called her-her own children called her Dio-and I liked the warm way he said her name, sometimes as in “Father and Ruth.” Of course I listened to Pete as a Weaver. ![]() To me Pete Seeger was his stepmother’s stepson. ![]()
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