Fear Not Liberty's Future Star Trekers & Welcome Earth Humans To A 2001 Time-Space Odyssey Adventure in a Returned Grand Journey Enterprise Release Passionsword Arena Gladiator Roundtable Blood Sport Out From The Grave Brought Forth, Created, Envisioned & Destined To Come True As Sweet Lady Liberty's Voice Divine Dream Calls Out From The Heavens Above Awakening into the Great Matrix-Vortex Paradigm Shift Unto the Ends of the Cosmic-Karmic Universal Divine Distance & Beyond
All the things I still remember Summers never looked the same Years go by and time just seems to fly But the memories remain In the middle of September We still play out in the rain Nothing to lose but everything to gain Reflecting now how things could've been It was worth it in the end (Daughtry - September Lyrics)
"COME & SEE" THE EXITING OUT OF... THE DREAM OF ENLIGHTENMENT & INTO THE LONG LONG TIME AGO LOST IN SPACE GENERATIONS OUT FROM THE GRAVE AWAKENING IN THE REAL DEAL BOTTOM LINE MODERN DAY.Signed Gladly, Sadly & Tragically At The Silent PassionSword Blades Edge We Bitter Over Bitter Sweet Gladiators Of The Society Of The Sacred PassionsWord
SO "BYE BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE" 1959-2009 AS YOU ONCE MORE LIKE BEFORE FADE UNTO THE LIGHT &AMERICA ~ FATA MORGANA DEL MONDO
A FOOL SUCH AS I ~ ELVIS PRESLEY (Now and then there's a fool such as I)
Pardon me, if I'm sentimental When we say goodbye Don't be angry with me should I cry When you're gone, yet I'll dream A little dream as years go by Now and then there's a fool such as I
Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you You taught me how to love And now you say that we are through I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear Until the day I die Now and then there's a fool such as INow and then there's a fool such as I am over you You taught me how to love And now you say that we are through I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear Until the day I die Now and then there's a fool such as I Now and then there's a fool such as I Now and then there's a fool such as I ****************************************************** HEY BIG GUY IT TOOK JUST A LITTLE BEAUTY TO HAVE YOU STILL BE FEELING... FOR... ONCE I WAS LIKE YOU ARE AND THUS YOU WILL BE LIKE I AM****************************************************** The Fool’s Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill
The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: “Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!”
The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before; They could not see the bitter smile Behind the painted grin he wore.He bowed his head, and bent his knee Upon the monarch’s silken stool; His pleading voice arose: “O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!
“No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool; The rod must heal the sin: but, Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!“’Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; ’Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away.
“These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend.“The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung?
“Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all; But for our blunders — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall.“Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will; but Thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!”
The room was hushed; in silence rose The King, and sought his gardens cool, And walked apart, and murmured low, “Be merciful to me, a fool!”SO ONCE AGAIN I MAY BE A FOOL BUT...
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
Farewell For Now...For When Holly, The Big Bopper, and Valens. died; rock died. Elvis has left the building. Buddy Holly is no more. Rock 'n' roll is over, at least in its original form. And Don McLean can only watch them go and sing, "Bye-bye, Miss American Pie...
SADLY BEAUTIFUL "MISS AMERICAN PIE" IS NOW INHABITED BY DECADENT FOOLS AND ON WHO'S EPITAPHS WILL SO READ...
"A Fool Lies Here..."
Now it is not good For the Christian’s health To hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles And the Aryan smiles And he wearth the Christian down; And the end of the fight Is tombstone white With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, “A fool lies here Who tried to hustle the East." ~ Rudyard Kipling ~ Oh Mirror, Mirror On The Wall Tell The Tale To One And All Let It Be Known Far And Wide That Truth Be Cast From Deep Inside
Mirror,Mirror On The Wall Who's The Most Foolish Of Them All
If The Truth Reflects In Glass The Merry Truth Must Then Be Cast Then All Shall Come To Gaze And See The Reflection Of Truth That None Can FleeForever Held In A Magical Tale Of Tales... Within A Divine Hope That Never Fails And Thus The Dream Shall Come To Pass In A StoryBook Tale That Reflects In Glass
SO... TO ALL GREEN GLADIATORS WORLDWIDE IN STRENGTH & HONOR "I SALUTE YOU" ~ GLADIATOR ZERO ~THUS MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
Signed Gladly, Sadly & Tragically At The Silent PassionSword Blades Edge We Bitter Over Bitter Sweet Gladiators Of The Society Of The Sacred PassionsWord@The Centrist Arena of Gladiators 1979-2009, are a # of The Society Of The Sacred Sword, a wholly-owned subsidiary Of $ Grand Journey Enterprise Release LTD, a privately-held Investigative Research Source of Internet Conspiracy Theory%
SO WHO HERE IS REALLY THE TRUE FOOLISH FOOL... FOR LONG AGO I STARTED A JOKE OUT FROM THE GRAVE"TILL I HEAR IT FROM YOU"... A FOOL SUCH AS I
ENTER NOW INTO THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX 2009 & THE...BLACK SABBATH (BLACK SABBATH)
What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me Turn around quick, and start to run Find out I'm the chosen one Oh nooo!
Big black shape with eyes of fire Telling people their desire Satan's sitting there, he's smilingWatches those flames get higher and higher Oh no, no, please God help me!
Is it the end, my friend? Satan's coming 'round the bend people running 'cause they're scared The people better go and beware! No, no, please, no!PARANOID (BLACK SABBATH)
Finished with my woman cause she couldn't help me with my mind People think Im insane because I am frowning all the time All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy Think Ill lose my mind if I dont find something to pacify
Can you help me thought you were my friend Whoah yeahI need someone to show me the things in life that I cant find I cant see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind
Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry Happiness I cannot feel and love to me is so unreal
And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but its too lateWAR PIGS (BLACK SABBATH)
Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that to the poor...Yeah!Time will tell they are power minds Making war just for fun Treating people just like pawns in chess Wait 'till their judgement day comes Yeah!
Now in darkness, world stops turning Ashes where the bodies burning No more war pigs have the power Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging mercies for their sins Satan laughing, spreads his wings OH LORD YEAH!CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE (BLACK SABBATH)
Revolution in their minds The children start to march Against the world in which they have to live And all the hate that's in their hearts They're tired of being pushed around And told just what to do They'll fight the world until they've won And love comes flowing through...YEAH!Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall today Will the sun rise up tomorrow bringing peace in any way? Must the world live in the shadow of atomic fear? Can they win the fight for peace or will they disappear? YEAH!
So you children of the world, Listen to what I say If you want a better place to live in Spread the words today Show the world that love is still alive You must be brave Or you children of today are Children of the grave, YEAH!
[Whisper] Children of the grave.... Children of the grave.... Children of the grave.... NEON KNIGHTS (BLACK SABBATH)
Oh no, here it comes again Can't remember when we came so close to love before Hold on, good things never last Nothing's in the past, it always seems to come again Again and again and again ooh again oh
Cry out to legions of the brave Time again to save us from the jackals of the street Ride out, protectors of the realm Capatin's at the helm, sail across the sea of lights
Circles and rings, dragons and kings Weaving a charm and a spell Blessed by the night, holy and bright Called by the toll of the bellBloodied angels fast descending Moving on a never-bending light Phantom figures free forever Out of shadows, shining ever-bright
Neon Knights! Neon Knights! all right!
Cry out to legions of the brave Time again to save us from the jackals of the street Ride out, protectors of the realm Capatin's at the helm, sail across the sea of lights Again and again, again and again and again
Neon Knights! Neon Knights! Neon knights! All rise
***********UU******************************************** TO ALL FELLOW DEATH DEVOTEE "CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE" HEAVY METALERS OUT THERE IN CAMELOT...TIME ONCE AGAIN TO...Cry out to legions of the brave Time again to save us from the jackals of the street Ride out, protectors of the realm Capatin's at the helm, sail across the sea of lights
THUS I SALUTE YOU IN STRENGTH & HONOR! ~ GLADIATOR ZERO ~
SO SEE FOREVER DAWNING WITHIN THE LONG AWAITED FOR... DIVINE BLOODY SABBATH WINNOWING COMING ROUND THE BEND. AS YOU NOW ENTER THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX 2009 & FEEL THE COMING RETURN OUT FROM THE GRAVE PARADIGM SHIFT AWAKENING OF "JUST THE BEGINNING"
NOW SEE INTO THE NEXT UPCOMING HAND THAT DOTH FEED
So The Coming Hands That shall Smack The Rack Are Awaiting The Next Upcoming Attack...
so Remember... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
For the things we already have are more valuable than the things we only hope to get.
Warning given...WHERE & WHEN YOU NOW DOTH ASK IN HASTE.... A LAUGH & A SIGH AS YOUR NOW PUT TO WASTE... GO AHEAD AND TAKE A LAUGHS ON YOU... HA HA HA HA HA
For... The Hands That Now Feed Shall Be Bitten Off Clean... As Future Prizes Await At The Scene. So If This Be But Another Cheap Ploy Know now What Shall Await In Store.
AND THUS ALSO JUST PERHAPS BY DESTINY'S DIVINE CALLING REALIZE THAT...Is it the end, my friend? Satan's coming 'round the bend people running 'cause they're scared The people better go and beware! No, no, please, no!
GO THEN & TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK INTO THE MAGIC MIRROR OF REFLECTED TRUTH AT THE TRUTH THAT LIES WITHIN
SO ONCE AGAIN THE SACRED ANCIENT MUNUS CALLING OUT FROM THE GRAVES ONCE MORE OF... LET THE BODIES HIT THE "PASSIONSWORD ARENA" FLOOR BEGINSAn Enchanted Reason To Be Within An Enraptured Reasoning To But Begin Again To Re-Load All That’s Been So Far Loaded Upon The Heavily Burdened Shoulders Of So Many...Thus... Within The Arena Space Out...
"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult." -- George Eliot (1819-80)THUS GIVEN FORTH IN TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH & THE IMPENDING "BLACK SABBATH" COMING ROUND THE BEND THOUGH FOR NOW IT'S TIME ONCE AGAIN TO...BUT BEFORE YOU SO DO SO... ITS TIME ONCE AGAIN TO GIVE DEATH HIS DUE READY NOW TO "COME & SEE" A DIVINE WORK IN PROGRESS
FOR HERE WE GO HERE WE GO HERE WE GO NOW... SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE...FOR WE HAVE NOT IN THE LEAST BIT REACHED OUR LIMIT FOR REVENGE SO IN CLOSING MAY THE SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH DIVINE PASSIONSWORD ARENA FORCE BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
Signed Gladly, Sadly & Tragically At The Silent PassionSword Blades Edge We Bitter Over Bitter Sweet Gladiators Of The Society Of The Sacred PassionsWord
FOR REMEMBER THAT... Nothing's in the past, it always seems to come again Again and again and again ooh again oh
FOR DEATH DIVINE SERVES BOTH GOD & SATAN & GIVES THEM BOTH BACK THEIR JUST DUE OF SOULS AND THUS LIKE ALWAYS & SO FOR ETERNITY... IT'S...Again and Again, Again and Again and Again
GIVEN FORTH IN LOVE TO MY FAR AWAY AIEAN BEAUTY EVEN THOUGH FOR NOW I DANCE ALONE WHILE STILL AWAITING YOU WITHIN THE VALLEY OF DREAMS TO RETURN UNTO ME IN ETERNITY & BEYOND MY LOVE...CAN YOU WAIT FOR ME
P.S. OH BY THE BLACKHAWK UNDERSTOOD WAY & THIS DOESN'T PERTAIN TO ALL BUT WAY TOO MANY...
DEDICATED IN MEMORIAM TO GLADIATOR ZERO'S FIRST DIVINE LOVE FROM (1970-1973) THUS GIVEN FORTH IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE TO MY ETERNAL SWEET SLEEPING BEAUTY ROSEMARY (1961-1973) R.I.P.
AN I'LL REMEMBER YOU "TINY BUBBLES" SALUTE TO A DISTANT FAR AWAY TIME WHEN STILL AWAITING
NOW & FOREVERMORE IN A DESTINED "OUT FROM THE GRAVE" RETURN TO DIVINE INNOCENCE WITHIN SACRED SANCTUARY'S NEVER FORGOTTEN CORRIDORS OF BOTH TIME & SPACE.
& TO YOUR ARMS SOMEDAY I'LL RETURN TO STAY TILL THEN... I WILL REMEMBER TOO EVERY BRIGHT STAR WE MADE WISHES UPON LOVE ME ALWAYS PROMISE ALWAYS...YOU'LL REMEBER TOO THUS FOREVER SEEING THE INFINITE WITHIN ME & INTO THE ENDLESS BOUNDS OF THE INFINITE IN YOU & BEYOND...
& SO I LIVE MY LIFE IN DREAMS OF YESTERDAY UNTO THE INFINITE BEYOND DEATH'S COLD DARKENED WILL
LONG AGO A DIVINE LITTLE BEAUTY SO CAUGHT MY EYE WITH AN INNOCENT SCHOOL ROOM GLANCE STILL MAKES ME SIGH FROM A FAR OFF LAND ACROSS THE MIGHTY WATERS DEEP A LITTLE ANGEL DID COME WITH A SHY SMILE & MY HEART DID LEAP
WHILE HER BEAUTIFUL SWEET EYES SO DARK AND BRIGHT LEAD ME BACK TO HER IN MY DREAMS EACH & EVERY NIGHT I LOVED HER ON FIRST SIGHT AND SHALL I ALWAYS STILL EVEN IF WE WERE PARTED BY DEATH'S COLD DARKENED WILLI SHALL FOREVER LOVE HER ENDLESSLY THROUGHOUT ETERNITY FOR IF YOU MET HER YOU'LL NEVER FORGET HER ~ AND NOBODY KNOWS LIKE ME ~
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" Single by Edison Lighthouse B-side "Every Lonely Day" Released January 1970 (UK) 21 February 1970 (US) Recorded England Flag of England, November 1969 Label Bell Records Writer(s)Tony Macaulay/Barry Mason/Sylvan Whittingham
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" is a popular song by "one-hit wonder" Edison Lighthouse. The single hit the number one spot in the UK singles chart on 31 January 1970 where it remained for a total of five weeks."Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" was written by Tony Macaulay, Barry Mason and Sylvan Whittingham. Essentially they were a studio group with prolific session singer Tony Burrows providing the vocals. When the song became number one a group needed to be put together rapidly to feature on the popular TV show Top Of The Pops. Sylvan Whittingham found a group called Greenfields and brought them to the auditions a week before Top of the Pops.
Once chosen and rehearsed non stop they appeared on the show as 'Edison Lighthouse' to mime to the fastest climbing no 1 hit record in history. Burrows sang the song on the programme, which happened to be his third appearance on the same show with three different groups.
It reached number 5 on US pop chart, number 3 in Canada, and number 1 on the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in January and February 1970. Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes
She ain't got no money Her clothes are kinda funny Her hair is kinda wild and free Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes And nobody knows like me
She talks kinda lazy And people say she's crazy And her life's a mystery Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes And nobody knows like me
There's something about her hand holding mine It's a feeling that's fine And I just gotta say She's really got a magical spell And it's working so well That I can't get away
I'm a lucky fella And I've just got to tell her That I love her endlessly Because love grows where my Rosemary goes And nobody knows like meThere's somehing about her hand holding mine It's a feeling that's fine And I just gotta say She's really got a magical spell And it's working so well That I can't get away
I'm a lucky fella And I've just got to tell her That I love her endlessly Because love grows where my Rosemary goes And nobody knows like me
Fadout: It keeps growing every place she's been And nobody knows like me
If you've met her, you'll never forget her And nobody knows like me
La la la - believe it when you've seen it Nobody knows like me ********************************************************************THUS SO DEDICATED TO MY FAR AWAY SWEET ROSEMARY & THE CONTINUING BATTLE AGAINST...
Encephalitis lethargica - "Sleeping Sickness"
Constantin von Economo ICD-10 A85.8 ICD-9 049.8 Diseases DB 32498
Encephalitis lethargica (EL) or von Economo disease is an atypical form of encephalitis. Also known as "sleepy sickness" or as "sleeping sickness" (though different from the sleeping sickness transmitted by the tsetse fly), EL was first described by the neurologist Constantin von Economo (1876-1931) in 1917, EL attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless.Encephalitis Lethargica was a devastating illness that swept the world in the 1920's. And unfortunately still persists even today.
It attacked the brain, leaving victims like living statues, speechless and motionless.During the outbreak, nearly a million died, and millions more were left frozen inside their useless bodies, in institutions.Encephalitis can be very serious. Brain damage occurs as the inflamed brain pushes against the skull, and can lead to death. No-one knew what had caused it, or how to treat it.
Japanese encephalitis (JE),
Japanese encephalitis is a potentially serious disease spread by infected mosquitoes in parts of Asia. It is a severe epidemic infection of brain tissue seen in East and Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand. The virus is carried by domestic pigs and wild birds. The disease is characterized by shaking chills, paralysis, and weight loss and is caused by Flavivirus transmitted by the mosquito Culex tritaeniorhynchus. Symptoms include headache, fever, neck stiffness, tremors, seizures, spastic paralysis, and coma. Mortality rate ranges widely from 0.3% to 60%. Various neurologic and psychiatric sequelae are common. An inactivated JE vaccine is available and recommended for travel to endemic areas. What Is Japanese Encephalitis? Japanese encephalitis is a potentially severe viral disease that is spread by infected mosquitoes in the agricultural regions of Asia. It is one of several diseases that is caused by a mosquito-borne virus. Japanese encephalitis can affect the central nervous system and cause severe complications, including death. There is no specific treatment for this disease.
What Causes Japanese Encephalitis?
Japanese encephalitis is caused by an arbovirus. Arbovirus is short for arthropod-borne virus. Arboviruses are a large group of viruses that are spread by certain invertebrate animals (arthropods), most commonly, blood-sucking insects. Like most arboviruses, Japanese encephalitis is spread by infected mosquitoes. How Is Japanese Encephalitis Transmitted?
The Japanese encephalitis virus has a complex life cycle involving domestic pigs and a specific type of mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus, that lives in rural rice-growing and pig-farming regions.The mosquito breeds in flooded rice fields, marshes, and standing water around planted fields. Where Is Japanese Encephalitis Found?
Many of these areas are in Asia, including Japan, Korea, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Areas where the disease-causing arbovirus is always present are referred to as being endemic for the disease. In such areas, blood tests will reveal that more than 70% of all adults have been infected at some point with the arbovirus.
Because the virus that causes Japanese encephalitis is carried by mosquitoes, the number of people infected increases during those seasons when mosquitoes are abundant. This tends to be in the warmest, rainiest months. In addition to humans, other animals like wild birds, pigs, and horses are susceptible to infection with this arbovirus. Japanese encephalitis is a seasonal disease that usually occurs in the summer and fall in the temperate regions of China, Japan, and Korea. In other places, disease patterns vary with rainy seasons and irrigation practices.
Because the specific type of mosquito carrying the Japanese encephalitis arbovirus frequently breeds in rice paddies, the disease is considered to be primarily a rural problem. Infection can also occur near urban areas in some developing Asian countries. Prognosis
While the majority of people infected with arbovirus never become sick, those who develop Japanese encephalitis become very ill. Some outbreaks have a 50% death rate. A variety of long-term problems may haunt those who recover from the illness.
These problems include: * Movement difficulties where the arms, legs, or body jerks or writhes involuntarily * Shaking * Paralysis * Inability to control emotions * Loss of mental abilities * Mental disturbances, including schizophrenia (which may affect as many as 75% of Japanese encephalitis survivors). DEDICATED ALSO TO A LONG AGO TIME WHEN WE WERE SO YOUNG & IN DIVINE TRIBUTE TO OUR PARENTS (ELVIS-BEATLES) GENERATION
Treatment
Currently, there is neither a vaccine nor a drug available to prevent infection with sleeping sickness. There are drugs available for treatment of the disease, but at present, the drugs are scarce, difficult to administer, and sometimes dangerous. One of the original drugs developed to combat sleeping sickness, atoxyl, contained arsenic and caused blindness in hundreds of patients in 1932. A drug called melarsoprol was developed to prevent such side effects, but there are very limited supplies remaining. A drug has been developed to treat sleeping sickness but up until very recently it was too expensive and therefore not available to many of the poor countries.ONCE AGAIN DEDICATED IN MEMORIAM TO... GLADIATOR ZERO'S FIRST DIVINE INNOCENT LOVE MY ETERNAL SWEET SLEEPING BEAUTY ROSEMARY (1961-1973)
I'LL BE LONELY...OH SO LONELY LIVING ONLY TO REMEMBER YOU
I'LL REMEMBER YOU... IN A LONG REMINISCED ETERNAL KISS OF PURE LOVE GIVEN FORTH IN A "OUT FROM THE GRAVE" AWAKENING ONCE MORE THANKFULLY TO LOVE ENDLESSLY... SO HAVE A REAL GROOVY DAY
ALSO DEDICATED IN MEMORIAM & IN TRIBUTE TO MR. TINY BUBBLES HIMSELF ~ THE INCOMPARABLE DON HO
& TO A TIME WHEN LONG AGO THAT STILL TO THIS DAY MAKES ME WARM ALL OVER WITH A FEELING THAT I'M GOING TO LOVE YA TILL THE END OF TIME...AS YOU FADE ONCE MORE TO YOUR ARMS SOMEDAY I'LL RETURN TO STAY...TILL THEN "I WILL REMEMBER YOU" & EVERY BRIGHT STAR WE MADE WISHES UPON TO BLACK
P.S. A SACRED RETURN BACK UNTO THE DIVINE LIGHT IN FOND MEMORY ~ TRIBUTE AND IN MEMORIAM FOR... MARY TRAVERS (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter and member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Noel "Paul" Stookey. Peter, Paul and Mary was one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s.
Unlike most folk musicians who were a part of the early 1960s Greenwich Village music scene, Travers actually grew up in that New York neighborhood. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Robert Travers and Virginia Coigney, both of whom were journalists and were active organizers for The Newspaper Guild, a trade union. In 1938, the family moved to Greenwich Village in New York City. She attended the Little Red School House there, but left in the eleventh grade to pursue her singing career.SINGING CAREER While in high school, she joined The Song Swappers, which sang backup for Pete Seeger when Folkways Records reissued a union song collection, Talking Union, in 1955. The Song Swappers recorded a total of four albums for Folkways in 1955, all with Seeger. Travers regarded her singing as a hobby and was shy about it, but was encouraged by fellow musicians. Travers also was in the cast of the Broadway-theatre show, The Next President.
The group Peter, Paul and Mary was formed in 1961, and they were an immediate success. They shared a manager, Albert Grossman, with Bob Dylan. Their success with Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" helped propel Dylan's Freewheelin' album into the Top 30 four months after its release.Their version of "If I Had a Hammer" became an anthem for racial equality, as did Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which they performed at the August 1963 March on Washington."Puff, the Magic Dragon" is so well-known that it has entered American and British pop culture.
The group broke up in 1970, and Travers subsequently pursued a solo career and recorded five albums: Mary (1971), Morning Glory (1972), All My Choices (1973), Circles (1974) and It's in Everyone of Us(1978). The group re-formed in 1978, toured extensively and issued many new albums. The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999.
In 2005, Travers was diagnosed with leukemia. Although a bone-marrow transplant apparently slowed the progression of the disease, Mary Travers died on September 16, 2009, at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, from complications arising from chemotherapy. She was 72 years old.
MAY SHE R.I.P. FOR HER MEMORY SHALL ENDURE FOREVER
All the things I still remember
Signed Gladly, Sadly & Tragically
AMERICA ~ FATA MORGANA DEL MONDO
