Pete Seeger

I began to wonder about the Pete Seeger story, when I realized that Seeger was 20 in 1939, something very simple math could have told me. I checked his biography in Wikipedia. He was politically active as a young man in the late 1930s. However, per Wikipedia, he met Guthrie in 1940.

Maybe the story took place in the 1940s, though Seeger was in the Pacific during the war.

Maybe the story took place in the later 1940s.