She enjoys gardening, but is frustrated by the fact that the house sits atop mountainous ground. Summary: Alicia Travers's birthday is 06/18/1966 and is 54 years old. Travers dropped out of school in her 11th grade. Mary Travers the blond haired folk singer with the smoky voice has succumbed to leukemia at 72. Mary Allin Travers was born on Nov. 9, 1936 in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of journalists who moved the family to Manhattan's bohemian Greenwich Village. Nevertheless, during her high school years she was one of the Song Swappers, a group that sang back-up for Pete Seeger. After all, she's part of Peter, Paul and Mary, a trio that the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll calls "the most popular acoustic folk music group of the 1960's." "I was a bad waitress with a private school education, which meant that I was illiterate," Ms. Travers said. She and Mr. Robbins, a restaurant manager, added on a spacious living room three years ago, but took care to design it in the spirit of an 18th-century New England home. The party was held in the home of her manager Jerry Weintraub. "So, I tell them, 'If a movement is what you want, you have to make it.' At a party in honor of her Carnegie Hall perfomance, American singer Mary Travers smiles at her daughter, New York, New York, February 1973. Travers lived for many years in Redding, Connecticut. Mary Allin Travers, Writer: Mary: Rhymes and Reasons. 2 on the charts, and generated since-discounted reports that it was an ode to marijuana. MARY TRAVERS, folk music icon, mother, grandmother and idealist, lives quietly with her husband, Ethan Robbins, two cats and a dog named Peaches in … "I have five acres of rocks," she says. BOSTON (AP) - Mary Travers, one part of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, which used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of … ", With the advent of the Beatles and Dylan's switch to electric guitar, the folk boom disappeared. The former won them Grammys for best folk recording, and best performance by a vocal group. She shares the central-chimney home with her husband, Ethan Robbins, and her 28-year-old daughter Alicia. She was the daughter of Robert and Virginia Travers. "I'm just feeling fabulous. Mary Travers’ life and career, in photos. In a 1966 New York Times interview, Travers said the three worked well together because they respected one another. "Blowin' In the Wind" became an another civil rights anthem, and Peter, Paul and Mary fully embraced the cause. A boxed set of their music was released in 2004. The three participated in countless demonstrations against the war in Vietnam. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. "They know we have substance.". "The music was everywhere. Travers was two years old. In 1969, the group earned their final Grammy for "Peter, Paul and Mommy," which won for best children's album. But the trio continued their success, scoring with the tongue-in-cheek single "I Dig Rock and Roll Music," a gentle parody of the Mamas and the Papas, in 1967 and the John Denver-penned "Leaving on a Jet Plane" two years later. Just how wrong became apparent once Ms. Travers and Mr. Stookey joined forces with Peter Yarrow, a folk singer who had gone to Cornell University. Folk Musician. ", See the article in its original context from. ONLY the most tuned-out members of the baby boom generation can claim never to have heard of Mary Travers. I'm out in the garden today. 3, "In the Wind," featured three songs by the 22-year-old Dylan. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and performed with him in Washington. © 2009 The Associated Press. ", Folk music was an integral part of Greenwich Village community life in the 1940's and 50's. Mary Allin Travers was born on November 7, 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was 72. Browse 1,101 mary travers stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. During that decade they produced 11 albums, 5 of which became million sellers. Their debut album came out in 1962, and immediately scored a pair of hits with their versions of "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree." "Well, when I was in high school in the 50's, I read all the great writers of the 30's union movement, like Jack London and Upton Sinclair, and in the midst of McCarthyism and the Eisenhower era I thought, 'I missed it.' It was heady stuff for a trio that had formed in the early 1960s in Greenwich Village, running through simple tunes like "Mary Had a Little Lamb.". No one ever made a living singing folk songs.' Cover for 'Mary Travers: A Woman's Words,' with Mike Renshaw (AP Photo). Other hits included "Lemon Tree," "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Puff (The Magic Dragon.)". Genealogy for Mary Ann Bill (Larkham) (1839 - 1927) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Travers had undergone a successful bone marrow transplant to treat her leukemia and was able to return to performing after that. Mary Allin Travers was born on Nov. 9, 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of journalists who moved the family to Manhattan's bohemian Greenwich Village. She was married to Ethan Robbins, Gerald L. Taylor, Barry Feinstein and John Filler. When Mary Virginia Travers was born in 1632, in Tidewater, Richmond, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, William Travers, was 35 and her mother, Rebecca Barrett Booth, was 23. Both parents were journalists and union activists. Indeed, their early fans -- most of whom were college students in the 60's -- now take their parents and children to concerts. Sometimes Ms. Travers is approached by high school and college students who are depressed by the current era's lingering climate of conservatism. "What little flat space there is I created myself. As their fame grew, Peter, Paul and Mary mixed music with political and social activism.