Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, near Horsham, West Sussex, England, birthplace of poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792
Jane Alley, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – (photo from 1964 – now the location of the New Orleans police headquarters, near Tulane and Broad), birthplace of Louis Armstrong, 1901
Two very different birthplaces, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Louis Armstrong – both of them born on this day – both geniuses
Here’s Allen reading Shelley’s Ode To the West Wind