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Bless you, mirabile!! I don’t feel quite so lost now, so distant from the [corn]fields of youth.
Roger Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924 but was raised in my own home town of Des Moines, Iowa.
In the early 1950s(?), while he was attending classes at Drake University, Williams played the piano daily at the Younkers Tea Room, while the hoi polloi of Des Moines (such as they were) noshed on such delicacies as the Metropolis had to offer.
My Grandma Jenny was the chief hostess at the Tea Room, and knew Williams quite well. (I believe she had a crush on him, in fact.) Unfortunately for Grandma, Williams caught a lucky break when he filled in one day as an accompaniest on the Arthur Godfrey show.
The rest, as they say, is history. But as anyone living in Des Moines can tell you, history never happens there.
Another enduring Williams classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHTjWuFSZ_s
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