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Article: 40 years later, Clear Lake, Iowa, remembers `the day the music died'.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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CLEAR LAKE, Iowa _ The very top of a wooden fence post is sticking out of the snowdrift and Jeff Nicholas allows as how he should have thought to bring a shovel.
``We could try to dig it out with our hands,'' he says.
No point.
We know what is down there.
Beneath the deep snow drifted against the fence line is an aluminum memorial, the silhouette of a guitar. It marks the place where Buddy Holly, a blossoming 22-year-old rock 'n' roller, and three others died in the early hours of Feb. 3, 1959, when their small plane crashed minutes after leaving the airport in nearby Mason City.
``The plane came in right through there,'' ...
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