Peter Yarrow with guitar, tan jacket, white hair just at the back of his head, white beard and glasses in front of a microphone with three women and a child standing next to him — Lindsay France/Cornell University Peter Yarrow ’59 performs in Bailey Hall at Reunion 2019.

Folk icon Peter Yarrow ’59, of Peter, Paul and Mary, dies at 86

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By | Caitlin Hayes , Cornell Chronicle

1/7/2025

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