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Remembering the “Forgotten Roadie,” Chuck Flowers

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Amidst all the Lynyrd Skynyrd tragedies, he’s not often spoken of. Even the headlines that announced his death misidentified him as a former backup guitarist. He’s been called the “forgotten roadie.” Ironically, if he’d been on that plane that crashed in 1977, he might still be alive.

Lives and Afterlives of “The Green House” on Riverside Avenue

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Ed and Ruth Brown called the “Green House” home for about four decades and Ed died on Christmas Day, 2017. The house is most famous for when members of Lynyrd Skynyrd lived here, but its story also includes the Osky’s alligator heiress, a ballet master who studied with Ballanchine and attempts by fire and, yes, developers to destroy it.