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Down by the Riverside

Image by Jodie Childers & Dan Messina
Pete Seeger
Get Tickets $10 (suggested)
In the 1960s, the iconic American folk singer Pete Seeger devised an audacious plan—to build a sailboat to save the 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 spouse Toshi, Down by the Riverside shows how an unconventional campaign to save a beloved American waterway prompted a green revolution. Join us for a screening and Q&A with directors Jodie Childers and Dan Messina.