Mary Travers Memorial Is Scheduled for Nov. 9 A memorial celebration of the life and music of the folk singer Mary Travers will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday at Riverside Church.

The guitarist and vocalist—one-third of the popular 1960s group Peter, Paul and Mary with Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey—acquired the loft-style duplex in the early 1980s. Sited on two ...

Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980. Credit: AP/George Brich ...

Peter Yarrow was a singer-songwriter and a social activist, but he was best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary.

FILE - Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980. (AP Photo/George Brich, ...

AP2009 FILE - Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980.

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FILE – Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980. (AP Photo/George ...

Peter, Paul and Mary rose to overnight fame in 1962 when they blended their voices in stunning harmonies as they sang out against war and social injustice.

Peter Yarrow, the singer, songwriter, and political activist who made up one third of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86.

FILE – In this July 27, 2004 file photo, Mary Travers, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. of Peter, Paul and Mary perform before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston.