[With the recent passing of Walter Cronkite and Teddy Kennedy, it has felt lately as if important parts of my youth are dying. Now Mary Travers, who with Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey comprised the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, has died at 72. The only time I saw them perform, was in June of 1968, during the Poor Peoples March in Washington DC. Mary Travers' voice was the embodiment of that clearly ringing bell of freedom, that Peter, Paul & Mary sang about in their hit, "If I Had A... read more
