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.