The notes of “Amazing Grace” rose from Dean Swihart’s saxophone and hung under the golden dome of the Capitol, where people sat drenched in the light of a Washington sunset.
“They asked me, ‘Dean, would like to come read a poem?’” said Swihart, a music teacher. “I said, ‘I don’t read poems, can I play my saxophone?’”
So he brought his sax from the Hoosier State and chose his favorite song to honor the person America knew as Rep. Walorski, but he knew as Jackie.
