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"David McKnight, a fiddle-playing journalist who loved politics, story-telling and music, died Tuesday morning in Durham. He was 69. McKnight, who grew up in Charlotte, died from a brain tumor two days after more than 200 friends and musicians gathered at Durham’s Blue Note Grill for a three-hour musical tribute. McKnight played several instruments and spoke multiple languages, including Russian. He composed everything from bluegrass to waltzes and wrote essays about North Carolina politics and history. He even ran for office, once walking 1,654 miles across the state from Manteo to Murphy in an unsuccessful bid to take on Republican U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms. In recent years, he was a fixture on Durham’s 9th Street: the bespectacled man with the wild gray hair bent over his fiddle or mandolin. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/movies-news-reviews/article127107154.html#storylink=cpy"

1/18/2017 2:13:31 PM

butforealdo

1/18/2017 2:14:14 PM

if this doesn't give you feels, you are a robot:
A Requiem for David McKnight: Prodigy, Journalist, Politician, Homeless Street Musician
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/a-requiem-for-david-mcknight-prodigy-journalist-politician-homeless-street-musician/Content?oid=5100256

1/18/2017 2:19:49 PM

he was a really neat person

1/18/2017 2:27:26 PM

I remember talking to him a few times as an undergrad about music. Really nice guy.

1/18/2017 2:45:14 PM

Goodnight, sweet prince.

1/18/2017 4:18:48 PM

GNSP

1/18/2017 5:13:17 PM

damn.

1/18/2017 5:19:17 PM

is he on itunes?

1/18/2017 10:12:03 PM