In 1966, Pete Seeger, his wife, Toshi Seeger, and a handful of Hudson Valley residents came together believing "by learning to care for one boat on one river, the public could come to care for all our threatened waterways." Three years later, in 1969, the Clearwater made her maiden voyage down the Atlantic Coast from the Harvey Gamage Shipyard in Maine to the South Street Seaport in New York City.To see a list of Clearwater events this coming spring, click here.MP3: Pete Seeger - River Of My People