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  La Bolduc Mary Travers - Women's Exhibition - Celebrating Women's Achievements
Born in Newport, a small fishing and lumbering town on the southern coast of the Gaspé Peninsula, Mary Travers came from a large family of English descent.
Travers was first engaged as a fiddler for the musical show "Veillées du bon vieux temps" in 1927.
Travers was encouraged to sing for the first time for the musical review, and initial success led her to compose La Cuisinière.
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 Sitio oficial de Ticketmaster. Mary Travers boletos, fechas
With her long, flowing, blonde hair and crystal-clear soprano vocals, Mary Travers was a major influence on the folk music of the 1960s and '70s.
A founding member of Peter, Paul And Mary, Travers, not only became one of the most commercially successful folk performers, but, used her position to become an inspirational political spokesperson.
Travers reunited with Stookey and Yarrow in 1978 for a benefit concert, Survival Sunday, that Yarrow organized and produced at the Hollywood Bowl.
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  The New Yorker: Fact
Travers was a woman who never married, wore trousers when she felt like it, had a transformative and emotionally charged relationship with an older married man, and entered into a long-term live-in relationship with another woman.
It is Mary Poppins who puts the children to bed and unbuttons their overcoats and bathes them; Mary Poppins who, familiar to the children simply by her scent—toast and Sunlight soap—comes to their bedsides and comforts them with warm milk and quiet words.
Travers was intimately involved in all aspects of the physical production of her books, including the color of the dust jackets and the typeface.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/051219fa_fact1   (4655 words)

  
 curlio.com: Mary Travers Takes To The Stage After Battling Leukaemia
Travers stated that she thought that the doctors were very happy with her progress and they were thrilled and would be attending the concert.
Travers had waited a long time for a donor match after her chemotherapy failed to stop the disease and she lost almost 60 pounds and much of her trademark long blond hair.
Travers is grateful to her donor, whom she does not know yet, but hopes to meet the individual someday.
www.curlio.com /new_showarticle.php?id=7793   (434 words)

  
 Mary Travers - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
With her long, flowing, blonde hair and crystal-clear soprano vocals, Mary Travers was a major influence on the folk music of the 1960s and '70s.
A founding member of Peter, Paul And Mary, Travers, not only became one of the most commercially successful folk performers, but, used her position to become an inspirational political spokesperson.
Travers reunited with Stookey and Yarrow in 1978 for a benefit concert, Survival Sunday, that Yarrow organized and produced at the Hollywood Bowl.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,502934,00.html   (622 words)

  
 Mary Poppins, Gurdjieff and Fundamentalism (CESNUR)
Pamela Travers, Gurdjieff, and the Rhetoric of Fundamentalism
Travers, from 1925 on, had been introduced to Theosophical thought and to literary figures familiar with the Theosophical Society, including George Russell and William Butler Yeats.
Travers insists that Mary Poppins is not only a children's book but the conscious creation of a myth.
www.cesnur.org /testi/marypoppins.htm   (3004 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mary Poppins Opens the Door: Books: P. L. Travers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family in a rocket and involves the Banks children in more magical adventures including those with Peppermint Horses, the Marble Boy, and the Cat that Looked at the King.
Mary Poppins from A to Z by P.
Mary Poppins in the Park (Mary Poppins) by P.
www.amazon.com /Mary-Poppins-Opens-Door-Travers/dp/0694506826   (857 words)

  
 peter, paul & mary : bio
He met up with Peter and independently, Mary Travers, who was already known for her work in the "Song Swappers," a folk group that had recorded with Pete Seeger.
Mary Travers recorded five albums; produced, wrote and starred in a BBC television series; and lectured and concertized across the country.
Peter, Paul and Mary's benefit for the UFW organizing campaign in Santa Cruz on March 19, 1998 marked the 30th anniversary of the first benefit the Trio performed for Cesar Chavez and the UFW at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1968.
www.wbr.com /ppm/cmp/bio.html   (2378 words)

  
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The Travers sisters, Louisa (second daughter of Mary Travers of St. John's Newfoundland) and Eliza (third daughter of Mary) married brothers; Thomas Gilbert Ruggles and Charles Edward Ruggles respectively.
John1 Travers was born in Timoleague, County Cork, Ireland, and died in St. Mary's, Newfoundland.
Louisa3 Travers (John2, John1) was born 1806 in St. John's, Newfoundland, and died April 26, 1887 in Kildare Capes, Prince Edward Island.
www.webspawner.com /users/ruggles/travers.html   (1700 words)

  
 'Poppins' author's life was quite precocious - CNN.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff on August 9, 1899, in Maryborough, Australia.
Travers wrote 18 books, signing them P.L. Travers, "hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, a woman or a kangaroo." In 1934, the first of six "Mary Poppins" books was published.
Disney liked to tell the story of how Travers approached him at the "Poppins" premiere and said the movie was "quite nice." She approved of Julie Andrews as Poppins but considered Dick Van Dyke "all wrong" and objected to mixing animated characters with live actors.
www.cnn.com /2006/SHOWBIZ/books/10/17/books.poppinsauthor.ap/index.html   (1051 words)

  
 curlio.com: Mary Travers diagnosed with leukemia
"Mary looks forward to touring again with the trio soon, and is grateful for the well wishes that have come to her from all over the world," the statement said.
Mary wants to extend her most heartfelt thanks to all of you who sent such beautiful messages of concern, love, healing and humor.
Mary is in day + 9, since the bone marrow transplant and the good news today is that she had an upswing as her white blood cell count was observed to be increasing.
www.curlio.com /new_showarticle.php?id=6545   (2809 words)

  
 Mary Poppins A to Z by P.L. Travers, with drawings by Mary Shepard - Harcourt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mary Poppins A to Z by P.L. Travers, with drawings by Mary Shepard - Harcourt
P. TRAVERS (1906—1996) was a drama critic, travel essayist, reviewer, lecturer, and novelist.
She wrote several other books for children and adults, but it is for the character of Mary Poppins that she is best remembered.
www.harcourtbooks.com /MaryPoppins   (216 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Singer Travers fights leukaemia
Folk singer Mary Travers, a member of 1960s group Peter, Paul and Mary, is having chemotherapy for a form of leukaemia, her publicist has revealed.
"Mary looks forward to touring again with the trio soon, and is grateful for the well wishes that have come to her from all over the world," he said.
With Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey, Travers was in one of the most successful US folk groups of the 1960s and early 70s.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/4077751.stm   (280 words)

  
 Transplant For Mary Travers - CBS News
Travers, a 68-year-old Connecticut resident, had been waiting for a match after chemotherapy failed to stop the disease.
Travers, who revealed last year that she had been diagnosed with cancer, is expected to have the operation soon, according to her publicist, Heather Lylis.
Peter, Paul and Mary, known for songs such as "Leaving on a Jet Plane," and "Puff, The Magic Dragon," last year released "Carry It On," a five-disc box set of their greatest hits.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/26/entertainment/main690881.shtml   (502 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mary Poppins (Odyssey Classics): Books: P. L. Travers,P.L. Travers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Soon, though, the children are having tea on the ceiling, flying around the world in a minute (visiting polar bears and hyacinth macaws on the way), and secretly watching as their unusual nanny pastes gold paper stars to the sky.
Mary's stern and haughty exterior belies the delightful nonsense she harbors; her charges, as well as her literary fans, respect and adore her.
The Mary Poppins of the sticky-sweet Disney film and the Mary Poppins of the Travers novel are two entirely different characters, and the book presents us with a terse, demanding, and sharp-spoken nanny whose advetures satirize British sensibilities of the early 20th Century.
www.amazon.com /Mary-Poppins-Odyssey-Classics-Travers/dp/0152017178   (1959 words)

  
 Mary News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Today's world is driven by the Internet, but artist Mary Gillis can recall her frustration in 2004 when she tried and failed to find objective, nonpartisan Web sites to tell her about the presidential...
Peter, Paul and Mary singer Mary Travers met her Michigan bone marrow donor, a year after the transplant that saved her from dying of leukemia.
Mary Travers of the folk-singing group Peter, Paul and Mary, a Redding resident, has recovered from leukemia.
www.topix.net /who/mary?scoring=r   (285 words)

  
 Mary Travers Awaiting Bone Marrow Transplant - Folk Music
A folk icon, Mary Travers is facing imminent surgery for a bone marrow transplant to fight leukemia.
Mary is long known for her affiliation with Peter Yarrow, and Noel Paul Stookey; otherwise know as Peter, Paul and Mary (PP&M).
The trio continues to actively tour and record, however, since the announcement of Mary's health concerns have been made public, all tour dates scheduled for the spring of 2005 have been cancelled.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art31020.asp   (351 words)

  
 Mary Travers Sings John Denver
The musical heritage of John Denver's music has been intertwined with that of Mary Travers and her group Peter, Paul and Mary beginning in the late 1960's with PPandM's 1st and only #1 hit, "Leaving on a Jet Plane." Of course
Mary's single reached #56 on the Hot100 by July 26, 1971 and as high as #3 on the Easy Listening chart that same summer.
Mary Travers - I Guess He'd Rather be in Colorado - 1.037 mgs.mp3
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 Mary Travers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Helping found Peter, Paul and Mary in '61, the group debuted at the Bitter End in New York that same year and was on its way.
But maybe Mary didn't really care about that, because on the back of that same Movin' album mentioned above, she says, "We've found some beautiful things to be had from singing." Slender early in the '60s, by the end of the decade you could see that she'd be putting on weight in later years.
Peter, Paul and Mary are a 'performing' group in the real sense of that adjective, and humor is a little something extra you get when you see them in person...
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 Folk Alley (( More on Mary Travers' Leukemia Battle ))
Travers, one third of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary, was diagnosed with leukemia this fall.
Singer/songwriter Christine Lavin is collecting get-well messages and jokes for Travers through the E-mail address getwellmary@aol.com (she also has a letter from Travers up on her site).
Generations who had Mary Travers rather than Britney Spears as the role model nkow how much harder it is for young women to step into challenges of life that lie ahead.
www.folkalley.com /archives/000467.php   (935 words)

  
 Mary Poppins
The author was born Helen Lyndon Goff, in Queensland (Australia), the daughter of a sugar planter.
Reportedly, the idea for Mary Poppins’ appearance derives from a Queensland lady she saw walking in town, dressed in an old-fashioned style and carrying an umbrella with a bird's head carved into the handle.
She became a professional actress when she was 10, under the stage name “Pamela Lyndon Travers.” She moved to Dublin when she was 17, where she entered literary circles; her interest in myth and symbol connected her to W. Yeats and A. (George Russell).
www.northern.edu /hastingw/poppins.htm   (603 words)

  
 Used-Books for Sale from Mary Ward Books, Used, Rare and Out-Of-Print Books
If you have any further questions about an individual book or require a more detailed condition report please e-mail Mary Ward Books or use our 'ask question' button, found on every book description page.
Mary Ward Books holds a large selection of off-line second hand and out of print books.
Mary Ward Books, Blyford, Suffolk, IP19 9JR, United Kingdom.
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 Mary Travers - Mary Travers to perform again - celebrity - celebsoncrack.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Travers had been waiting for a donor match after chemotherapy failed to stop the disease.
Travers said she doesn't know her donor yet, but hopes to meet the person someday.
Travers said she's received more than 10,000 e-mails from well-wishers around the world.
www.celebsoncrack.com /index.php?getnewsid=60805   (287 words)

  
 NBC5.com - Entertainment - Mary Travers Of Peter, Paul And Mary Undergoes Chemotherapy
According to her publicist, Mary Travers is undergoing chemotherapy to fight the disease, and is expected to be in full remission within months.
"Mary looks forward to touring again with the trio soon, and is grateful for the well wishes that have come to her from all over the world," said Ken Sunshine in a statement.
Travers, who is 67, has recorded with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey since 1962.
www.nbc5.com /entertainment/3978836/detail.html   (333 words)

  
 Peter, Paul and Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The trio Peter, Paul and Mary (often PPandM) is an American musical group that was one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s.
In 2004, Travers was diagnosed with leukemia, leading to the cancellation of the remaining tour dates for that year.
She and the rest of the trio resumed their concert tour on December 9, 2005 with a holiday performance at Carnegie Hall and are scheduled for several additional concerts in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter,_Paul_and_Mary   (601 words)

  
 Travers Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
The further adventures of the magical nanny Mary Poppins and her charges, the Banks children.
On Midsummer's Eve all kinds of strange things can happen, and the Banks children are about to experience an unforgettable adventure with their favorite nanny, Mary Poppins, who brings everyone into the spirit of a most magical holiday.
In this lively history of Southern California football, Steven Travers makes the case that under the guidance of coach Pete Carroll (54-10), the Trojans have overtaken Notre Dame as the greatest ever collegiate tradition.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Travers   (1041 words)

  
 Tribute Page for P.L. Travers
Pamela Lyndon Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff, on August 9, 1899 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia.
Mary Poppins, Gurdjieff and Fundamentalism by Massimo Introvigne.
I have created it out of love for the author and her works, and in response to my own frustration at a lack of readily available information about her on the web.
www.geocities.com /merrystar3/travers.html   (583 words)

  
 Peter Paul & Mary Website
Today, this declaration seems redundant, because the term “folk music” has come to be virtually interchangeable with the group name, but when the words were written, they were meant less as a stylistic distinction than as a mission statement.
In the decades prior to the ‘60s, through the work of such avatars as Woody Guthrie, the Weavers and Pete Seeger, folk music had become identified with sociopolitical commentary, but the idiom had been forced underground in the Senator Joe McCarthy witch-hunting era of the late ‘50s.
By the time Peter, Paul and Mary arrived on the scene, for the majority of America, folk was viewed merely as a side-bar to pop music which employed acoustic instruments.
www.peterpaulandmary.com   (190 words)

  
 Mary Poppins' Magic Born in P.L. Travers' Books
I'm hoping Mary Poppins turns out to be a kinder woman than she appears to be in the first one!
I first read the Mary Poppins books when I was a child in school.
I feel P L Travers wrote a children's book, but it is more fitting for the 'child within the adult'...
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/classic_literature/52068/latest/4   (330 words)

  
 Mary Travers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Travers (singer) (born 1936), American singer; member of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary
Mary Rose-Anna Travers (1894–1941), Quebecoise singer known as La Bolduc
Mary Travers (journalist), former television journalist, also known as Mary Travers Murphy
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Travers   (102 words)

  
 Mary Poppins Tickets - Cheap Mary Poppins Theater Shows Tickets At Onlineseats
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Mary Poppins possesses not only magical powers, but a good head on her shoulders.
The Disney film Mary Poppins, which pushed the story into unforgettable, mainstream culture, was released in 1964, despite some objections to certain elements by the books' original author.
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