UpdatedFri, Jan 29, 2021 at 9:26 pm ET
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Zyggy Szymczak plays his baby grand piano in his new trailer. The community raised the money to buy him a new home. (Justin Willis)
NORTH PORT, FL With 87-year-old Zyggy Szymczak staring down homelessness, it took the North Port community just a few weeks to raise around $28,000 to purchase and move him into a new trailer.
Until mid-December, though, the aging Polish concert pianist, who was diagnosed with dementia, didn t have many options. For decades, he d lived at Myakka River Park at the intersection of U.S. 41 and River Road, but the trailer park had a new owner with redevelopment plans.