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September 17, 2009

Mary Travers of Folk Group Peter, Paul and Mary Dies
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Travers, 72, had been battling leukemia 
Mary Travers (2005 file photo)Mary Travers, one third of the famous
1960's folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary has died of cancer. She was
72.A publicist for the group says Travers died Wednesday at a Danbury,
Connecticut hospital where she was being treated for leukemia. The
publicist said she had been battling the disease for a number of years.
Travers and her band mates, Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stockey made up
one of the most popular American music groups of the 1960's. Peter, Paul
and Mary mixed folk music with political activism, promoting civil
rights and protesting the U.S. war in Vietnam with such songs "Blowin'
in the Wind," "If I had a Hammer" and "Where Have all the Flower's
Gone."The group's also scored major hits with "Leavin' on a Jet Plane,"
"Lemon Tree," and "Puff, the Magic Dragon."


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