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Feb. 3, 1959:The music lives on

By Marv Wells “Clear Lake/Mason City” the highway sign reads. How many times  have I driven past this exit on 1-35 over the past 30+ years and said “Someday I’ll check it out?”  “It” was the site of Buddy Holly’s plane crash in 1959. Somehow I’d gotten the impression that Clear Lake was a ways off, thirty miles or more.…