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Pete Seeger raises the roof at Clearwater Sloop barn raising

Pete Seeger sings quot;If I Had a Hammerquot;

Photo credit: Faye Murman | Pete Seeger sings "If I Had a Hammer" at the barn-raising ceremony in Kingston of the new facility for the Hudson River Maritime Museum and Clearwater environmental group, which will serve as the winter home for sloop Clearwater, which was built by the folk singer and friends in 1969. (Sept. 15, 2012)

Folk music legend Pete Seeger had the hammers Saturday to finally build a permanent dock in Kingston for his majestic -- but homeless -- sloop that has sailed the Hudson River for decades, touching countless children with a message to save New York's most famous waterway.

An all-day, old-fashioned barn raising brought more than 1,000 visitors to the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston,...

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