Many of you are familiar with the music of Eva Cassidy, who died of cancer in November of 1996. At the time she died, she was just making a name for herself in the Washington area, having completed a CD with Chuck Brown, and a concert CD, “Live at Blues Alley.” Her music has grown in popularity. Listeners of the BBC included her version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” among the 100 best songs of the 20th century, and Amazon.com recently reported that Eva’s CD’s are their overall number 5 best seller in music for the last 10 years.

Few of you know that Eva Cassidy worked full or part-time at Behnke Nurseries for fourteen years at our Largo, Maryland nursery, between 1981 and 1995. With the sale of the Largo property and the move of the greenhouses to Lothian, it seems like a good time to recollect Eva’s years at Largo.

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