The trio’s members have been famous for his or her political activism. They carried out on the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and at demonstrations protesting the Vietnam Struggle.
All through his life, Yarrow campaigned for social change and causes, together with equal rights, peace, the atmosphere, gender equality, homelessness, hospice care, public broadcasting and training.
In 1970, he served three months in jail after pleading responsible to expenses that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old woman who had gone to his lodge room to hunt an autograph. Yarrow obtained a presidential pardon from President Jimmy Carter in 1981.
Stookey, the one dwelling member of the trio, praised Yarrow’s inventive affect and mentioned he would deeply miss his former bandmate.
“Being an solely little one, rising up with out siblings might have afforded me the complete consideration of my dad and mom, however with the formation of Peter, Paul and Mary, I all of the sudden had a brother named Peter Yarrow,” Stookey mentioned.
“And whereas his consolation within the metropolis and my love of the nation tended to maintain us aside geographically, our completely different views have been celebrated usually in our friendship and our music,” he added.
Yarrow is survived by his spouse, Marybeth, son Christopher, daughter Bethany and granddaughter Valentina.
