Thank goodness for dinner parties! Not only did we enjoy a superb meal and fine wines, but I got the inspiration for this column. One of the trivia buff guests regaled me with his story of a ...

ABBOTSFORD - Electrical conduit, garage door springs, metal, bicycle wheels, chicken wire and green cloth doesn't seem like the makings of anything special. But to Abbotsford it is. Droves of people ...

The passing of Peter, Paul and Mary’s Peter Yarrow reminded me not only of the folk group’s biggest hit, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” it also reminded me of an animated Puff, the Magic Dragon kids TV ...

Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic Dragon” — a ballad performed by the trio Peter, Paul and Mary that has ...

Peter, Paul, and Mary gave us Puff the Magic Dragon, a timeless song about the magic of youth. Unsurprisingly, it was based on a poem by a 19-year-old Cornell student, Leonard Lipton. Whether it's on ...

Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton, illus. by Eric Puybaret. Sterling, $26.95 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8711-9 Puybaret’s capricious paintings combine elegantly with pop-up engineering by Bruce Foster in a ...

Folk singer Peter Yarrow has broken his silence about the Republican Christmas CD featuring the parody song "Barack the Magic Negro" -- saying the song is "not only offensive, it is shocking and ...