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September 16, 2009, 9:18 pm
Mary Travers Of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies
By The New York Times
 United Press International Mary Travers singing with Peter, Paul and Mary in 1978. Paul Stookey is to the left and Peter Yarrow to the right. Update | 10:15 p.m. Mary Travers, whose ringing, earnest vocals with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary
made songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “If I Had a Hammer” and “Where
Have All the Flowers Gone?” enduring anthems of the 1960s protest
movement, died Wednesday night in Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. She
was 72 and had lived in Redding, Conn.
The cause was cancer, said her spokeswoman, Heather Lylis.
Ms. Travers brought a powerful voice and an unfeigned urgency to
music that resonated with mainstream listeners. With her straight blond
hair and willowy figure and two bearded guitar players by her side, she
looked exactly like what she was, a Greenwich Villager straight from
the clubs and the coffee houses that nourished the folk-music revival.
“She was obviously the sex appeal of that group, and that group was
the sex appeal of the movement,” said Elijah Wald, a folk-blues
musician and a historian of popular music.
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