It’s hard to imagine growing up in the last 60 years or so without being touched by the music and activism of Peter Yarrow. He wrote the classic “Puff the Magic Dragon” while still a student at ...

You like Peter, Paul and Mary?” Jack Byrnes (played by Robert De Niro) asks Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) in Meet the Parents, as “Puff the Magic Dragon” starts playing in ...

Members of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, left to right: Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow in 1978. (The Heritage Foundation) Yarrow was born on May 31, 1938, in New York.

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los ...

Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group's most enduring ... when Ben Stiller angers his girlfriend's tightly wound father (Robert De Niro) by saying "puff" refers to marijuana smoke.

Yarrow was 86. Yarrow ... "Meet the Parents," when Ben Stiller angers his girlfriend's tightly wound father (Robert De Niro) by saying "puff" refers to marijuana smoke. Yarrow maintained it ...