TheDailyWoo - 708 (6/9/14) Ray Charles Childhood Home
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B help me help
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got welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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coming to you from Greenville
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Florida and I'm standing somewhere
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pretty fantastic look at this look at
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this it's the former home the boyhood
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home the childhood
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home if you may of Ray
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Charles it all began right here in
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Greenville Florida the city actually
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purchased this
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house and restored
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it the house was actually in danger of
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collapsing and falling apart and the
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city put together some money
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and put it back together and there is
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Ray Charles
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porch it's my second channel daily blog
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channel it's the daily woo look at this
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fence they put around here obviously to
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to protect the home from
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damage
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graffiti that's really cool I don't know
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how old the chairs are but that's really
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awesome look at that chair it's falling
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apart Ray Charles grew up right here in
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Greenville
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Florida probably about 5 miles off the
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interstate in fact in the Little Town
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Square in the downtown area which isn't
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much of a little downtown it's very very
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small and some little stores around
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there is is actually a monument to Ray
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Charles playing the piano which is
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really cool I've actually been here
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before about a year ago I think I don't
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know what this
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is but right there is some sort of a
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water spout spet and a washboard look at
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the
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washboard I'm on my way back towards
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Central Florida I'll be in St Cloud
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Florida tonight for a little while late
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tonight for a couple days and then I go
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back on the road up the east coast to
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Canada with the band Guttermouth a
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couple week tour so I get to breathe a
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sigh of relief for one or two days
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starting late tonight and tomorrow until
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Friday this road trip man I've been gone
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for almost five months I left Florida on
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January 17th and you know what today is
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it's almost 5 months later and now I'm
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back in Florida for the first time in
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almost five months four and 3/4 months
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I've been gone on this road trip and I'm
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back in Florida enjoying Ray Charles
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home his boyhood home that he lived
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at I should read the monument for you I
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should read the
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monument some flowers down there what
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kind of flowers are
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everyone's out having a good time
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yelling and screaming riding their bikes
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around the neighborhood looks like
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they've been getting rid of some
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Shrubbery from the trees and the Florida
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Moss hanging down right
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there pretty cool Ray Charles childhood
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home this house is a reconstruction of
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the home where musician Ray Charles
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lived with his mother artha Williams
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an adopted grandmother Margaret Robinson
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shortly after his birth in 1930 until
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about the age of five so from age zero
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to five Ray Charles lived right in
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there this modest woodframe vernacular
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home he grew up in was probably
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constructed in the 1920s it had no
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electricity and no indoor plumbing was
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that the ouse we saw out back
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the abandoned house was scheduled for
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demolition in 2006 the town of
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Greenville purchased the structure to
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preserve the memory of Ray Charles with
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a grant from the Florida Bureau of
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historic preservation the town completed
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the Restoration in 2008 and now we can
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come out here and witness a little bit
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of History a little bit of Ray Charles
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history thanks for watching check down
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see you guys
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later a lot of people Outdoors today all
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right have a great day goodbye