Jazz pianist and radio personality Marian McPartland, who died at her home Tuesday at 95, had a special relationship to Bowling Green.
The host of “Piano Jazz,” an NPR staple, performed here a number of times dating by the 1970s, and most recently in April , 1998 when she received an honorary degree from Bowling Green State University.
At that time she told the Sentinel-Tribune, Bowling Green felt like a second home. She’d met and maintained contact with so many people.