About the Collection
Some say sailboats are just rich men’s toys. Wrong; wrong. In the summer of 1969 they helped to start cleaning up a river.
The Maiden Voyage
In 1969, the Clearwater set sail from South Bristol, Maine along the Atlantic Coast on its way home to the Hudson.
The Story of the Film
In the 1960s, the iconic American folk singer Pete Seeger devised an audacious plan—to build a sailboat to save the polluted Hudson River. But the Clearwater was not just a beautiful wooden vessel; it was also a movement, intersecting environmentalism, civil rights, and antiwar activism.
An intimate portrait of Pete and the grassroots community he anchored in the Hudson Valley for over forty years with his wife Toshi, Down by the Riverside shows how an unconventional campaign to save a beloved American waterway prompted a green revolution.
Explore this collection to learn more about Pete Seeger and the Clearwater.
This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
Using the CollectionBuilder-CSV template and the static website generator Jekyll, this project creates an engaging interface to explore driven by metadata.
