David Bernz shares his new book, Pete Seeger – Chopping Wood – Thoughts and Stories of a Legendary American Folksinger, which is built around transcriptions of Pete’s spoken word and designed to allow us all to “hear” Pete Seeger once again as we journey through his remarkable life. Pete unabashedly shares historical and family stories, tells of learning the banjo, traveling with Woody Guthrie and finding commercial success with The Weavers. We learn how he wrote books and put together songs, hear his views on controversial subjects such as communism and the Peekskill Riots and learn how political discord affected him and his family. Pete also shares fictional stories, highlights people he admired, and talks of musicians he respected such as Bruce Springsteen. Pete and David share the heavy lifting as they tackle subjects such as the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Pete’s relationship to Greenwich Village and the need for copyright reform. Together, they portray how Pete put his world views into practice in his local community, how he lived with local hero status through his latter decades, and how they made recordings together resulting in two Grammy Awards.