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Celebrity chef and cooking judge Matt Rapposelli prepares some of his home-made sausages.

Sports editor Ed Lang had hoped to take his wife to see a Bob Hope performance, but he was injured in a car accident when he was enroute to get the tickets. So Hope visited the Langs in Lang's hospital room. Rollei 35, Tri-X, D-76

Nikon F, 200mm Nikkor, Ektachrome

The actress prepares for her role in "Grease" on Broadway. Leica M-4, 35mm Summicron Tri-X, Microdol-X 1:3

Paul Sorvino and Jorma Kaukonen at a restaurant in Athens, Ohio. I helped arrange the meeting, but I still have little idea what the assignment was all about. Both fine guys, though.

Two legendary guitarists and interpreters of the music of the Rev. Gary Davis play together on the porch at Jorma's Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp.

Brewer Field House, University of Missouri, Columbia, October 1969. Nikon F, 300mm f5.5 Aetna Coligon, Tri-X @ 3200 ASA, Acufine

A blues piano icon, Joe Willie takes a break. Originally a guitarist, he took up blues and boogie piano following a "misunderstanding" involving a woman and a knife that resulted in severed tendons in his left arm. Touring until the end, he died in 2011. He was 97 years old.

A midwestern legend.