Baltimore due for a Lithuanian Dynamo Hum

With my surname of Cizauskas, this story of cultural convergence piqued my interest.

Musician and composer Frank Zappa (1940-1993) was born in Baltimore, and spent boyhood years in a Park Heights Avenue row house and at nearby Edgewood Arsenal. His family moved to California in 1952, but Charm City plans to honor its native son with a statute from Lithuania, which will be placed somewhere in Fell’s Point.

Why Zappa? Why Lithuania? Mike Licht at NotionsCapital has the rest of the story.

For my Dad

Albert C. Cizauskas, my father, would have been 89 years old on 1 March 2009. Here is, in 1948, at the Consulate General in Batavia, then Netherlands Indies.