Stone Soup
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Pete Seeger’s music has been an integral part of my life. In addition to music that inspired children to walk in love and care for the environment, Pete’s work also centered on singing down injustice and oppression wherever they raised their ugly heads. With that in mind he worked with 1199 a labor union that began organizing black and Latino hospital workers in New York City in the late 1950s and denounced US government support for military dictators in Central America and the pro-apartheid regime in South Africa. Paul Dubois Jacob went on to co-author a children's book with Pete entitled Some Friends to Feed: Stone Soup. My children grew to love the book and the music CD that came with it which features Pete’s narration and music of the story. Pete served as a ambassador of goodwill and advocate for feeding the poor.
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