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Chicken Bone Man
would be of interest to collectors of miniature books, Memphis history,
music history, or Jewish history. The short story told by a dog owned by the
young musician Berl Olswanger is set in 1927 Memphis, Tennessee. It is an
amusing tale of the piano playing boy and his singing sister. He is inspired
by the acts in the Vaudeville Revue and the snake dancer to pen a song about
the "Chicken Bone Man."
Anna Olswanger is the daughter of Berl Olswanger. She discovered the sheet music for "Chicken Bone Man" and thirty-five other compositions he had written during the 1950's after his death in 1981. Berl's sister Gertie sang with the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Chicken Bone Man won the Second Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest, sponsored by the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference. Anna Olswanger promotes Jewish literature at http://www.Olswanger.com.
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