Got an Email out of the blue telling me I had purchased a "chromebook"
First off, I've never owned a chromebook and will not get one now...

At any rate, they sent the Email to my Original acct before G00gle was heard of
and I only use it for certain things,,, PayPal is not of of the certain things ::::


{{{ Names redacted }}}





So I gave a shot to see where the "Call for help" number was to:::













Now Bandwidth Inc seems to be legit, however,
they do not offer assistance with PP purchases,
Nor do they sell chromebooks ...


Be aware of the sites and phone numbers
you call to "resolve" any issue ...

Scammers are getting more and more crafty ...

Ice

This was still a big deal even when I was growing up..
Kids from all walks could identify with the characters..

TV was in it's infancy and these shows ruled the air waves

The only cast member I could find alive was
Sidney Henry Kibrick
July 2, 1928 (age 96)
Minneapolis, Minnesota


Here's a few of the actors,
Thanks for the laughs



Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals) is an American series
of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures.

Unlike many motion pictures featuring children and based in fantasy,
producer/creator Hal Roach rooted Our Gang in real life: most of the children were poor,
and the gang was often at odds with snobbish "rich kids", officious adults, parents,
and other such adversaries.

1922–1925: early years

According to Roach, the idea for Our Gang came to him in 1921, when he was auditioning a
child actress to appear in a film. The girl was, in his opinion, overly made up and overly rehearsed,
and Roach waited for the audition to be over. After the girl and her mother left the office, Roach
looked out of his window to a lumberyard across the street, where he saw some children having
an argument. The children had all taken sticks from the lumberyard to play with, but the
smallest child had the biggest stick, and the others were trying to force him to give it to the biggest child.
After realizing that he had been watching the children bicker for 15 minutes,
Roach thought a short film series about children just being themselves might be a success.






Born Sidney Henry Kibrick
July 2, 1928 (age 96)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Occupation Former film child actor
Years active 1933–1943






Born Thomas Ross Bond
September 16, 1926
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Died September 24, 2005 (aged 79)
Northridge, California, U.S.






Born Michael James Gubitosi
September 18, 1933
Nutley, New Jersey, U.S.
Died March 9, 2023 (aged 89)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.






Born Robert E. Hutchins
March 29, 1925
Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Died May 17, 1945 (aged 20)
Merced, California, U.S.







Born Matthew Beard Jr.
January 1, 1925
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died January 8, 1981 (aged 56)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Peter Yarrow, the Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary,
Dies at 86


The folk trio he formed with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers became a pop phenomenon,
scoring hits like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Puff the Magic Dragon.”




The folk group Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter Yarrow, left, Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey 
in a publicity photo from the early 1960s,
around the time their first album was released




Peter Yarrow, whose caring and righteous vocals for the trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped establish
them as one of the most popular folk acts of the 1960s, died on Tuesday at his home on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan.

He was 86.

His death was confirmed by Ken Sunshine, his publicist. Mr. Sunshine said the cause was bladder cancer,
which Mr. Yarrow had been battling for the past four years.

On many of the trio’s recordings they split the vocal parts equally, braiding Mr. Yarrow’s precise tenor around
Noel Paul Stookey’s gentle baritone and Mary Travers’s warm contralto. But Mr. Yarrow also had some
Mandala,” all of which he either wrote or co-wrote. “Puff” became a No. 2 Billboard hit, while “Day Is Done”
grazed the Top 20.








Mr. Yarrow wrote many other songs recorded by the group, often in collaboration with Mr. Stookey,
the last surviving member of the group
(Ms. Travers died in 2009 at 72).


In their peak years, Peter, Paul and Mary reached the Billboard Top 40 12 times; six of those songs
made it onto the Top 10, including one, their cover of John Denver’s “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane,”
that reached No. 1. They racked up five Billboard Top 10 albums and twice topped the
magazine’s album chart.

Like many folk groups of the day, Peter, Paul and Mary were as well known for their progressive politics
as for their music. In August 1963, they took part in the March on Washington, the site of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech. Performing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial,
they sang Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which they had turned into a Top Five Billboard hit that month;
their Washington performance helped establish it as a civil rights anthem.



In their peak years, Peter, Paul and Mary
reached the Billboard Top 40 12 times.


The trio also recorded songs and gave concerts supporting the liberal presidential candidates Eugene McCarthy
in 1968 and George McGovern in 1972. Mr. Yarrow’s lyrics often emphasized the group’s political commitment:
“The Great Mandala,” released in 1967, told the tale of a war protester on a hunger strike;
“Day Is Done” (1969), addressed to his son,
suggests that the coming generation might create a more just world.


“Day Is Done” and “Puff the Magic Dragon,” which both featured simple singalong choruses and willfully
innocent points of view, doubled as children’s songs. Decades later, Mr. Yarrow turned each of them into
an illustrated children’s book. “Puff” also inspired an animated TV special in 1978 that was popular
enough to spawn two sequels.



The Peter, Paul and Mary hit “Puff the Magic Dragon,” written by Mr. Yarrow
and Lenny Lipton, inspired an animated TV special that was popular enough
to spawn two sequels.Credit...


Peter Yarrow was born on May 31, 1938, in Manhattan to Bernard and Vera (Burtakoff) Yarrow,
Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. His father, a lawyer, was an assistant district attorney in
New York under Thomas E. Dewey. He later became a vice president of the
C.I.A.-funded organization Radio Free Europe.

Mr. Yarrow’s parents divorced when he was 5. His father later converted to Protestantism,
but Mr. Yarrow considered Jewish teachings a major inspiration in his life.

He studied painting at the High School of Music and Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
of Music & Art and Performing Arts) in Manhattan. During his college years at Cornell, he began
singing and playing guitar after attending a course in American folk literature taught by the folklorist
and historian Harold William Thompson.

After graduating, Mr. Yarrow moved to New York City and became a performer on the fruitful
Greenwich Village folk scene. “I went with the idea that I want to be involved in music that
creates community,” he told the music magazine Rebeat in 2015 — music, he added,
“that reaches people’s hearts and mobilizes people for a more humane society.”

His success in the Village led to an invitation to appear on a CBS television special, “Folk Sound USA,”
in 1960. It also earned him a chance to play the Newport Folk Festival, where he met Albert Grossman,
a founder of the festival and the manager of the singer Odetta.



Peter, Paul and Mary sang with Bob Dylan at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival.
With them were, from left, Joan Baez (partly obscured), Charles Neblett and
Rutha Mae Harris of the Freedom Singers, and Pete Seeger.




Mr. Grossman wanted to create a new group that would expand and update the formula of the Weavers,
a folk harmony group consisting of a woman and three men (one of them Pete Seeger), which enjoyed
significant success in the 1950s. He paired Mr. Yarrow with Ms. Travers, who had appeared in Village clubs
and sung several times with Mr. Seeger. The duo became a trio when, at Ms. Travers’s suggestion, they
added Noel Paul Stookey, with whom she had performed at a local club. Using Mr. Stookey’s middle name,
they settled on their catchy biblical moniker.

The trio presented a compelling visual image: The two men, wearing dark ties, beatnik goatees and
serious expressions, flanked Ms. Travers, whose blond hair framed noble cheekbones.
Mr. Grossman booked them for a run at the Bitter End on Bleecker Street, and a buzz was created. In 1961,
the group signed with Warner Bros. Records, which issued their debut album, called simply
“Peter, Paul and Mary,” the following May.

Mr. Yarrow sang lead on the group’s first single, “Lemon Tree,” based on a Brazilian folk tune,
which reached the Billboard Top 40. The full album rose to No. 1 after their second single,
“If I Had a Hammer,” written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays of the Weavers, became a Top 10 hit
and won two Grammy Awards.

The album stayed in the Top 20 for two years and sold more than two million copies.


The group’s follow-up, “Movin’,” released in early 1963, featured “Puff the Magic Dragon,” whose
lyrics were based on a poem that a friend of Mr. Yarrow’s, Lenny Lipton, had written when he was 19,
inspired by an earlier poem by Ogden Nash titled “The Tale of Custard the Dragon.”
Speculation later arose that the song referred to smoking marijuana,
an interpretation Mr. Yarrow strongly denied.

In June 1963, the trio released their cover of “Blowin’ in the Wind.” (Bob Dylan was another client
of Mr. Grossman’s.) It sold an estimated 300,000 copies in its first week.
By mid-August it had hit No. 2; it went on to sell more than a million copies.
Their version of another Dylan song, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” broke the Billboard Top 10,
boosting the writer’s own album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” into the Top 30.









Mr. Yarrow, Ms. Travers and Mr. Stookey in 1992.
After disbanding, the trio reunited for one-off benefit concerts in 1972 and 1978.
They began touring regularly after their second reunion,
and they continued to perform until Ms. Travers’s death in 2009.





In 1964, Mr. Yarrow joined the board of the Newport Folk Festival. In 1970, he conceived the
New Folks Concert at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, which became an annual event.
The year before, he had helped organize the National Mobilization to End the War,
an anti-Vietnam War protest in Washington attended by an estimated half million people.

Peter, Paul and Mary had the biggest hit of their career in 1970 when “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane,”
featuring Ms. Travers’s yearning contralto, reached No. 1. But mere months later, they announced their split.

They broke up in part to pursue solo careers, but also because Mr. Yarrow had been accused of
making sexual advances toward a 14-year-old girl who had come to his dressing room with her
17-year-old sister seeking an autograph in 1969. He served three months of a one-to-three-year
prison sentence after pleading guilty to taking “indecent liberties” with the girl.

In 1981, Mr. Yarrow received a presidential pardon from Jimmy Carter, though the case continued
to be an issue for many years during election campaigns for politicians whom Mr. Yarrow supported.

In 2019, during the height of the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse of women, a scheduled
performance by Mr. Yarrow at an upstate New York arts festival was canceled in response to protests.
A remorseful Mr. Yarrow responded in a statement by saying that the organizers’ choice to exclude
him was not “unfair or unjust.”

“I do not seek to minimize or excuse what I have done and I cannot adequately express my apologies
and sorrow for the pain and injury I have caused,” he said in a statement to The New York Times.

In 1969, Mr. Yarrow married Marybeth McCarthy, a niece of the Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.
(Mr. Stookey wrote “Wedding Song,” which has since been performed in their honor at wedding ceremonies
around the world.) The marriage ended in divorce, but they remarried in 2022. In addition to her, Mr. Yarrow
is survived by a son, Christopher; a daughter, Bethany; and a granddaughter.

Mr. Yarrow released his first solo album, titled “Peter,” in 1972, but sales were tepid. He enjoyed far more
success four years later with “Torn Between Two Lovers,” a song he wrote with Phillip Jarrell, which became
a No. 1 hit for the middle-of-the-road pop singer Mary MacGregor.

Peter, Paul and Mary reunited for one-off benefit concerts in 1972 and 1978. After their second reunion,
they began touring regularly, and they continued to perform until Ms. Travers’s death. In the years since,
Mr. Yarrow and Mr. Stookey periodically performed together.

In a statement on Tuesday, Mr. Stookey called Mr. Yarrow his “creative, irrepressible, spontaneous and
musical younger brother” but added that he also “grew to be grateful for, and to love,
the mature-beyond-his-years wisdom and inspiring guidance he shared with me like an older brother.”

“Perhaps Peter was both of the brothers I never had,” Mr. Stookey said, “and I shall deeply miss both of him.”

In 2000, Mr. Yarrow helped start Operation Respect, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating
bullying and promoting tolerance among children.

Later in life, he often performed with his daughter and the cellist Rufus Cappadocia in a trio known as
Peter, Bethany and Rufus. Their success reinforced Mr. Yarrow’s faith in his chosen genre.

“I believe folk music has had a positive effect on the decency, humanity and empathy of society,”
he told Reuters in 2008. “Peter, Paul and Mary had a huge audience, some of whom did not agree
with our politics. But they were touched by the human essence of our songs.”