Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Reinvention

As the sun set and the tide started to rise around City Island, the seaside village off the eastern tip of the Bronx, Saul Chandler took his seat at a bar called the Snug. Mr. Chandler, 70, a small man who smokes cheap cigars and refuses Budweiser not in glass bottles, is one of the island’s waterfront eccentrics. He is a bar-stool fixture at the pub, known for telling bawdy jokes and paying the tabs of strangers before slipping into the night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/nyregion/redemption-of-a-lost-prodigy.html

“Saul was very mystical in the way he interpreted music. He went somewhere else when he played. He was a poet.”

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