Posted July 8, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By David Codrea

“Puff the Magic Dragon” seems just plain wrong here. (Uncredited photo: Atlanta Jewish Times via The Awareness Center archive)

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Folk singer Peter Yarrow, of the group Peter, Paul and Mary, will no longer perform at this year’s Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival after organizers removed him from this year’s lineup,” the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin reported Tuesday. “On Monday, a festival representative confirmed that Yarrow will not headline the festival in September, citing reaction on social media about Yarrow’s 1970 jail sentence for ‘indecent liberties’ with a 14-year-old girl.”

What did he do?

“As reported at the time, the 14-year-old girl and her 17-year-old sister went to Yarrow’s hotel room seeking an autograph,” The Awareness Center documents in an archive of news stories about the incident. “Yarrow answered the door naked and made sexual advances that stopped short of intercourse.”

Lest they are dismissed as “right-wing extremists” out to smear a “progressive,” it should be noted this since-discontinued “clearinghouse” website was a project of the international Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault, “dedicated to ending sexual violence in Jewish communities globally.”

Yarrow’s conviction is damning, but it’s fair to …Read the Rest

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