Saturday, March 17, 2012

What a wonderful world! Pete as Louis Armstrong.

Interesting facts:  Louis Armstrong was born on July 4th, 1900.  When he was 12 years old, on New Year's Eve, he fired a pistol into the air and was arrested and sent to the Waifs' Boys Home.  That is where he learned to play the bugle and later the coronet.  After he was released, he played in a riverboat quartet and traveled to Chicago where he became famous.  When he died in 1971, his ex-wife was playing the piano at his funeral when she collapsed and died on the keyboard. 

I am learning lots more from school the second time around.

PS.  Among the other biographies: Neil Armstrong, Helen Keller, Pocohontas, Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Milton Hershey, Thomas Edison, Dale Earnhardt, Sacagawea.  Can you spot any of them?

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