Welcome to Air and Mankies, Captain of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable, and if history is an open book, all of these

amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Nobody is just one thing.

For example, an accountant is more than someone who crunches numbers all day.

They might be a mother or a father or a sibling.

They may play the guitar or volunteer in a soup kitchen on the weekends.

People contain multitudes, and we don't always know a person entirely.

Even someone we may see every day, like Anthony.

Anthony was born in August of 1926 in Queens, New York.

Unlike the Billy Joel song, it wasn't Anthony who worked in a grocery store.

It was his father, an Italian immigrant who had come to the United States in 1906.

His mother Anna was a seamstress born in the US to parents from the Calabria region of

Italy.

Anthony grew up in poverty, but he found solace in music.

He loved listening to singers like Judy Garland and Bing Crosby, and he even had a tap dancing

uncle on the Vodville circuit.

That introduction to show business lit a fire in him and inspired him to pursue his passion.

Singing

Unfortunately, Anthony's foray into performing what have to wait.

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