What about the dumb stuff I’ve done?

Published 11:24 pm Friday, February 22, 2008

Folk singer Pete Seeger isn’t totally thrilled with a new PBS documentary about him. Does the octogenarian lefty think the documentary’s a hatchet job? Quite the contrary — Seeger says it’s a puff piece. The program “didn’t show any of the stupid things I’ve done,” he says.

He must be talking about the time he went ballistic over Bob Dylan’s electric guitar.

Birthday greetings to Georgia Geiger of Monroe, who turned 107 Friday.

Here are some facts about 1901, the year of Mrs. Geiger’s birth, that give a sense of how astonishingly long she’s lived:

Presidents wore big, funny moustaches: Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in after the assassination of William McKinley.

Booker T. Washington became the first African-American to be invited to the White House.

Cars were in their infancy: New York became the first state to require license plates on horseless carriages.

The Victorian era ended that year: Queen Victoria, who scowled upon the British empire for most of the 19th century, died.

There were very few Mrs. Geigers: Life expectancy for Americans was about 48.