#Peter Yarrow

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Jewish folk legend and advocate for peace, Peter Yarrow, tragically passed away yesterday at age 86. Member of renowned band Peter, Paul, and Mary, he was known for classic songs such as “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and “This Land is Your Land”.

May his memory forever be a blessing 🕯️

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From left Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers and Noel ‘Paul’ Stookey pictured in 1962.

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[The photograph above is of Peter, Paul & Mary with Pete Seeger at a legendary concert at Carnegie Hall in 2003.]

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“There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name.” - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul, and Mary)

“When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others’ hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection. - Peter Yarrow

[The photograph above is of Peter, Paul & Mary with Pete Seeger at a legendary concert at Carnegie Hall in 2003.]

"If you love your country, you'll find ways somehow to speak out to do what you think is right." - Pete Seeger

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Bummer

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Good News From Israel

In the 12th Jan 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

Massive increase in Israel’s PR budget.

Life-saving Israeli treatments for the brain, heart, and traumatic stress.

Golan Druze rush to become Israeli citizens.

Two innovative Israeli laser systems perform valuable non-military functions.

Israeli sustainable device for keeping farm produce fresh is so cool.

A dozen Israeli companies doubled their US market value in 2024.

Light one candle for Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, who “Puffed” magic songs.

Read More: Good News From Israel

With Israel fighting a war on at least seven fronts, Israelis have to focus on priorities.

This newsletter contains articles about those Israelis whose priority is defending the nation's citizens, rebuilding homes, rehabilitating the wounded, volunteering, advocating, integrating into society, or continuing the successful path they were on before Oct 7th 2023.

Then there are the many Israelis who are focused on activities to benefit humanity - developing life-saving medical devices; researching cures for critical diseases; saving endangered species or searching for the "elixir" for longer life.

Israeli scientists have developed focused lasers for communicating or protecting crops; coating to stop fires spreading; a device to keep fruit & veg fresh; AI systems to restore speech to the mute, or radically shorten the time to build new products.  And foreign investors and multinationals are certainly focused on joining in with Israel's success. 

The photo from one of the posters at Ben Gurion airport shows the focused attention that young Israelis are giving to their hi-tech training.  Israel is focused on giving the next generation the skills to become the central focus of the future success of the Jewish State.

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The folk group Peter, Paul and Mary — Peter Yarrow, left, Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey — in a publicity photo from the early 1960s, around the time their first album was released.Credit...Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

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bob dylan, peter, paul and mary, and stevie wonder performing "blowin' in the wind" during the first martin luther king jr. day, kennedy center, washington d.c., january 20, 1986. photo by dennis brack

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Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

—Peter Yarrow, Puff the Magic Dragon

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Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bernice Reagon, Cordell Reagon, Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, Pete Seeger, and Theodore Bikel at the Newport Folk Festival, July 1963.

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Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies at 86

Peter Yarrow, one-third of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Jan. 7 of bladder cancer, The New York Times reports.

Yarrow was 86. His death leaves Paul Stookey as the only surviving member of the band; Mary Travers died in 2009.

Stookey remembered his former bandmate as both a “creative, irrepressible, spontaneous and musical younger brother” a “mature-beyond-his-years … older brother.

“Perhaps Peter was both of the brothers I never had and I shall deeply miss both of him,” Stookey said.

Peter, Paul and Mary’s original run ended after eight years in 1969 when Yarrow pleaded guilty to to taking “indecent liberties” with a 14-year-old girl and served three months in prison. He received a pardon from Jimmy Carter in 1981.

The trio reunited for a one-off benefit show in 1972 and again in ’78; the latter led to the group performing regularly until Travers’ death.

The group’s hits included the Yarrow-written “Puff the Magic Dragon,” “Day is Done” and “The Great Mandala” and covers of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” and John Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet Plane.”

Their success helped such next-generation artists as Arlo Guthrie find an audience “but their principles were not set aside in order to become popular,” Guthrie said.

“Even after their popularity waned and our kind of music was not as in vogue - (PPM) continued,” he wrote. “Decades after being on the top of the charts, Pater Yarrow still stood for the right stuff.“

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“I believe folk music has had a positive effect on the decency, humanity and empathy of society,” he told Reuters in 2008. “Peter, Paul and Mary had a huge audience, some of whom did not agree with our politics. But they were touched by the human essence of our songs.”

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TW: blood, guns, crying family members, white caskets, funerals

Ironically, Peter, Paul, and Mary's reworking of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" for this 1997 PSA is my favorite of the group's songs. It even beats out "Puff, the Magic Dragon," TBH.

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Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.

Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday in New York, publicist Ken Sunshine said. Yarrow had bladder cancer for the past four years.

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RIP to Peter Yarrow

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RIP Peter Yarrow