Peter Yarrow
etc
The way we all know
some people
we knew Peter Yarrow
a little. We met at a Big Seder
at Rachel and Paul Cowan’s house
a million years ago and later.
Peter was a good friend
of our good friends Carl Rogers
and Debrah Wiley. Over the years
we’d run into one another (and oddly
enough, Peter’s mother Vera
came over to visit a few times.
Once she had lunch. All this is a long
and unnecessary preface to a song
he’s sung forever. That seems right
for today. Love Esther
Thank you, Esther! So good to be reminded of this classic.. "don't let the light go out," indeed!
I have no stories to tell about Peter Yarrow, but your reference to Paul and Rachel Cowan makes me smile, thinking they might be the same Cowans who wrote a book about their time as Peace Corps volunteers in Ecuador. This was the same era (mid-1960's) that I too was waking up to my country's role in Latin American, SE Asia, etc. while living as a PC volunteer in Chile. They may also have been active in the Committee of Returned Volunteers, one of the many many organizations that joined together to Stop the War! Hoping we might be waking up and ready to build a broad anti-war movement again. ;)