All-American: To multi-talented New Yorker Matthew Piazzi, rural Southeast Missouri is a second home

Monday, August 25, 2008

For all 31 years of his life, Matthew Piazzi has been a New Yorker by geography, and a Cape Girardean by DNA. His mother, Judith Farris, is Cape Girardeau born and raised. She spent much of her life in New York pursuing a career in music before moving back to Cape Girardeau recently to take a position as a vocal music instructor with Southeast Missouri State University. And along the way, her son Matthew developed strong ties to the town in flyover country he calls his second home.

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