Many of us have heard the name 'Blind Tom Wiggins,' but there was another remarkable blind man who was an American pianist and composer of ragtime music. John William Boone was born in a Federal militia camp near Miami, Missouri, May 17, 1864, to a contraband slave, Rachel Carpenter. It is believed his mother was […]
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