'I'm a very lively renaissance man'
By Christine Des Garennes
Sunday April 15, 2007
Christine des Garennes
Charles Joseph Smith sits in downtown Champaign Tuesday with one of his musical compositions, which he carries everywhere in a backpack.
The school was atop a hill, and Charles Joseph Smith remembers looking down onto Chicago's Beverly neighborhood and wanting more.
"I wanted to go to regular school so badly," he said, thinking back to his time as a student at the Beacon School for children with special needs.
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