Thursday, June 05, 2008

New Bling for Charm City

Baltimore is about to get some statuary to celebrate a favorite son - Frank Zappa. Well, he should be a favorite son, anyway:

Most Baltimoreans are aware of their hometown's claim on Edgar Allan Poe, H.L. Mencken and John Waters, but fewer know that Zappa, who made more than 50 records between the late 1950s and his death in 1993, was born in Baltimore, the son of immigrants from Sicily.

His family lived in the 4600 block of Park Heights Ave., then moved to Edgewood in Harford County. Zappa's father, a chemist and mathematician, had a job nearby at Aberdeen Proving Ground. They moved to California when Frank was 10.
You can see a bit of the 15-foot sculpture here. It's a copy of a bust that is located in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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