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RIP Mary Travers

Folk trio and activists Peter, Paul & Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July. From left are Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow.Folk trio and activists Peter, Paul & Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July. From left are Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow. (File/Associated PressFile/Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
Folk trio and activists Peter, Paul & Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July. From left are Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow.Folk trio and activists Peter, Paul & Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July. From left are Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow. (File/Associated PressFile/Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)
Folk trio and activists Peter, Paul & Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July. From left are Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow.Folk trio and activists Peter, Paul & Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July. From left are Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow. (File/Associated PressFile/Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)

Folk trio and activists Peter, Paul & Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July.

“Mary Travers, who as one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped popularize such tunes as “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” and ” If I Had a Hammer ,” died Wednesday after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.” http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_en_mu/us_obit_mary_travers

~ His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave,
So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave~

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