Although Peter, Paul & Mary are no more, their spirit and music is still uniting people and spurring many to think carefully about brotherhood. Don’t believe it? Consider Paul — Noel Paul Stookey — who will headline a local event that includes readings and music to benefit the Menare Foundation, a nonprofit organization that preserves the Historic Button Farm, Maryland’s only living history center depicting 19th century plantation life and is home to the Underground Railroad Immersion Experience.

“We’ll read from a variety of disciplines, better known as world leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., and play a diversity of my songs … and will touch on issues of race and the larger issues before us, especially in the U.S., that is made up of so many with different beliefs and perspectives.”