Thank goodness for dinner parties! Not only did we enjoy a superb meal and fine wines, but I got the inspiration for this column. One of the trivia buff guests regaled me with his story of a ...

Peter, Paul, and Mary gave us Puff the Magic Dragon, a timeless song about the magic of youth. Unsurprisingly, it was based on a poem by a 19-year-old Cornell student, Leonard Lipton. Whether it's on ...

Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton, illus. by Eric Puybaret. Sterling, $26.95 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8711-9 Puybaret’s capricious paintings combine elegantly with pop-up engineering by Bruce Foster in a ...

Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic Dragon” — a ballad performed by the trio Peter, Paul and Mary that has ...