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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lenny Lipton, who as a college freshman wrote the lyrics to the classic folk tune “Puff the Magic Dragon,” and then used the song’s bountiful royalties to fund years of pioneering research in 3D ...

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 ...

Peter Yarrow ’59 of the folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary died at 86 on Tuesday at his Upper West Side home in Manhattan. Yarrow co-wrote one of the group’s most popular songs, “Puff the Magic ...

Back in 1963, at the ripe young age of 10, I was finding a liking of certain music and musical groups to put in my mental cache and focus on while listening to our local radio stations, or while ...