Archive for September, 2009
Mary Allin Travers (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009) one-third of the most successful 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years.
The group earned five Grammy Awards for their three-part harmony on songs like “Puff (The Magic Dragon),” which reached No. 2 on the charts “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
“Blowin’ In the Wind” became a civil rights anthem, and Peter, Paul and Mary embraced the cause. They marched with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., and performed with him in Washington.
They became the biggest group of the folk revival movement, three of their albums were in the top six Billboard best-selling LP’s in 1963.
Born Nov. 9, 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky, Travers was expelled in the 11th grade. She lived in Greenwich Village, New York, as a high school student.
Travers was diagnosed as having leukemia she had a successful bone marrow transplant and was able to return to performing after that.
Travers lived for many years in Redding, Conn. She is survived by her husband, Ethan Robbins and daughters, Alicia and Erika.
R.I.P.

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