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#CapCut Peter Yarrow (May 31, 1938 – January 7, 2025) was an American singer and songwriter who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary along with Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. Yarrow co-wrote (with Lenny Lipton) one of the group's best known hits, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (1963). While campaigning for 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, Yarrow met McCarthy's niece, Mary Beth McCarthy, in Wisconsin. He was 31 at the time and she was 20. They were married in October 1969. Paul Stookey wrote "Wedding Song (There Is Love)" as his gift for their wedding. Yarrow and McCarthy had two children, son Christopher and daughter Bethany.They later divorced in 1981. They remarried in 2022 and were together until his death in 2025. Yarrow's Larrivée acoustic guitar was stolen on an airplane flight in December 2000. Fans spotted the guitar on eBay in early 2005. The FBI recovered it in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida and returned it to Yarrow. In 1970, Yarrow was convicted of taking "immoral and improper liberties" with 14-year-old Barbara Winter. On August 31, 1969, Winter had gone with her 17-year-old sister, Kathie Berkel, to Yarrow's room at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., seeking an autograph. Winter claimed in a sworn statement to police that Yarrow opened the door naked and made her masturbate him until he ejaculated. At his sentencing hearing, held in September 1970, Yarrow contended that Winter was a willing participant, which Winter has consistently refuted. Yarrow’s attorney argued “the sisters were ‘groupies’ whom he defined as young women and girls who deliberately provoke sexual relationships with music stars,” according to a United Press International report. The judge sentenced Yarrow to "one-to-three years" imprisonment, but suspended the term except for three months. Yarrow was granted a presidential pardon by Jimmy Carter on January 19, 1981, the day before Carter's presidency ended. In May 2021, The Washington Post wrote that his pardon by Carter, "perhaps the only one in U.S. history wiping away a conviction for a sexual offense against a child—escaped scrutiny when it happened. 🥀Yarrow died from bladder cancer on January 7, 2025, after a month in hospice care. He was 86, and was diagnosed with the illness four years prior. ✨Mary Allin Travers ✨ (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009). Travers left school in the 11th grade to become a member of the Song Swappers folk group. Travers was married four times. Her first brief union, to John Filler, produced her older daughter, Erika, in 1960. 💍In 1963, she married Barry Feinstein, a prominent freelance photographer of musicians and celebrities. Her younger daughter, Alicia, was born in 1966, and the couple divorced the following year. 💍In the 1970s, she was married to Gerald Taylor, publisher of National Lampoon. 💍After the end of her marriage to Taylor, Travers had a relationship with lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste for several years while raising her daughters in New York. In 1991 she married restaurateur Ethan Robbins. In 2004, Travers was diagnosed with leukemia. A bone marrow transplant in 2005 induced a temporary remission. 🥀Travers died on September 16, 2009. from complications related to the marrow transplant and other treatments. She was 72.
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