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First it was Mary Travers ... And now it's Peter Yarrow. Joan Baez has lost her voice and Tom Paxton is frail. Phil Ochs has been dead for fifty years now. Time marches on for good or bad. It won't be long before it's just the recordings are left.

Maybe it's for the best, though, as we are seeing both the best and absolute worse of that generation in their twilight years. While lessons should be learned from the yesteryear we shouldn't hold back the inevitable changes whatever they may be. But as the last of them die off there will be a lot of emptiness in our world, and so many stories untold and lessons unlearned. But it was before my time!