Washington DC, 1968 (?)

“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind” Bob Dylan

Ghosts are real. For this old man, they often take the form of fractured memories.

I know I saw Peter, Paul, and Mary in concert, and have photographs to prove it. I have always remembered it was while I was stationed in DC, and that the event was at DAR Constitution Hall.

That would stick out to some of us of a certain generation. PP&M could not have been a favored act of the DAR, and them performing there seemed such a contradiction. It was a confusing time with lots of contradictions. I was a budding hippie peacenik who was starting to forgo haircuts, but enlisted in the Army in 1967.

“How many roads must a man walk down….”

I looked online to confirm they had actually been at the Hall, and they had, in 1967, according to the World Wide Web. I was not in DC in 1967, but I have photos? Fractured memories.

They were a big part of the soundtrack of my coming of age journey. When “The Times They are a Changing” was playing the other night while Barbara was making dinner, I made the melancholy observation that we had believed it then. Barbara said, dismissively, “They always are.” Which is true.

RIP Peter Yarrow.

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