- She initially had not planned a professional singing career. Folk singing was a hobby until she met Peter Yarrow, who convinced her to join him in a folk-music trio.
- When she was two years old, her family moved to New York City. She grew up in the Greenwich Village neighborhood.
- On a PBS special she sang to her little granddaughter Wylly as her two daughters, Erika Marshall (born 1960) and Alicia Travers (born 1965) looked on.
- As a teenager, before joining Peter Paul & Mary, she worked as a dental technician.
- Mary of the folk group Peter Paul & Mary.
- Attended the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village, New York.
- In 2004, Travers was diagnosed with leukemia. A bone marrow transplant in 2005 induced a temporary remission, but she died on September 16, 2009, at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, from complications related to the marrow transplant and other treatments.
- Ravers left school in the 11th grade to become a member of the Song Swappers folk group.
- Mary Travers released five solo albums: Mary (1971), Morning Glory (1972), All My Choices (1973), Circles (1974) and It's in Everyone of Us (1978).
- She also was in the cast of the Broadway show The Next President.
- Folk singer and co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival, Theodore Bikel, mused on her roles as political activist and glamorous pop-music touchstone.
- Travers grew up amid the burgeoning folk scene in New York City's Greenwich Village.
- Mary attended the progressive Little Red School House, where she met musical icons like Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson.
- Paul Robeson sang her lullabies.
- She sang in the contralto range.
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