Thursday, September 17, 2009

Mary Travers 1936-2009

Noted 60s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary are down to two today with the death of Mary Travers from complications from chemo from a bone-marrow transplant she had earlier in the year to combat her leukemia.

For a lot of people, this is a big deal-- for me, not so much. I'm more a child of a the punk/new wave era than the flower power era-- however, there is this fragment of my childhood:



Kind of sucks that 'Puff The Magic Dragon' is not, in fact, about what everyone thinks it is about. As you can see from the video- it's really about 'the loss of innocence' of children. Hehehehehe. Suuuuuuuuuuuure...

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