No Place Like Home

Written by Ray Flanagan as part of Roots of American Music’s “Hough is My Home” series, a songwriting collaboration between ROAM teaching artists/musicians and senior adults who regularly attend the Fatima Family Center in Cleveland’s Hough community. Ray collaborated with Delores Webster, an 81 year old, life-long resident of Cleveland. Delores was part of Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington and heard his “I Have a Dream” speech in person. While she has extensively traveled throughout the United States and beyond, and has fond memories of many different places along her travels, she simply says “There’s no place like home”. No matter where she was returning from, Delores remarked that “when you see that Terminal Tower, you know you’re back in Cleveland.”