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Pete Seeger and Paul DuBois Jacobs to Tell Stories at MHC

Folk music legend Pete Seeger and writer Paul DuBois Jacobs, authors of Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book (Harcourt Brace, 2000), will tell stories Saturday, February 2, at 1 pm in Chapin Auditorium. The event, cosponsored by the Odyssey Bookshop and MHC's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, is free and open to the public.

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book, a collection of stories, ideas, and music, shows how anyone can start a storytelling tradition. It includes stories from Seeger's family history, tales from America's past, new versions of familiar legends, and stories based on songs. In keeping with the theme that a story never ends—only gets better with each retelling—Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book gives its readers wonderful story openers to get them started on creating their own tradition.

Storytelling is a tradition that has been passed on from generation to generation throughout history, but one that is threatened in an age of ready-made entertainment. "More and more, it seems we're becoming a nation of spectators," said Seeger, who has been sharing stories through song for more than fifty years. As a member of the American folk music group the Weavers and as a solo performer, he is internationally known for such songs as "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "If I Had a Hammer," and "Turn, Turn, Turn." He is a Grammy Award winner and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors, and he has written several songbooks and the musical autobiography titled Where Have All the Flowers Gone.

Paul DuBois Jacobs is a freelance writer and poet. He earned a master of fine arts degree from the University of Virginia, where he was the recipient of the Henry Hoyns Graduate Creative Writing Fellowship. His grandfather cowrote a number of songs with Seeger, which led Jacobs to collaborate on writing projects such as Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book and the children's book Abiyoyo Returns.

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