“What’s become of the Almanac Singers, the kids with the Yankee twang who brought folk-singing back out of the past and turned it into a weapon to fight Fascism? People wonder and ask, and when you tell them, ‘Well, the old Almanac Singers don’t exist anymore,’ they think that’s pretty sad—and it would be if it were literally true. But it’s not true that the Almanacs don’t exist …. Pete Bowers, the long, skinny tenor with the turned-up nose and the freckles, went into the Army with his guitar, and first crack out of the box he won a contest there, singing ‘Round and Round Hitler’s Grave.’”