Old Accordion plays Music for Heart & Brain
A few doors down the block from the house on Main Street where I lived in early childhood, a music store filled a storefront beside the local print shop. We walked by it on trips to the grocery store in downtown Lebanon, OR. Perhaps it was there, in the music store window that a shiny accordion caught my imagination. Or maybe it was the happy melodies that spilled from my Danish uncle’s button accordion at every family gathering. Then again it could have been my mother’s deci