sheep-shorn beard,
the crushed lilac top, the yellowing cowboy boots – this had to be the country
legend, the one, the only, the man of whom it was once said, “‘If you've
ever woken up with a broken heart in one hand and an empty bourbon bottle in
the other - Virg is singing just for you.”My wife pretends to swoon; I pretend to catch her.The author of “A Song for Hank Williams,” is just a step away.

Virgil Clenthills swears he was born
in August 1939 in Intercourse, Missouri,
son of an illegal English immigrant and half Shoshone Virginia Mae Pluckett who
then orphaned him at the age of five with a Packard. But really Virg was
created by Gareth Owen at 70, in Ludlow.

As Virg recalls, he launched his
“World Tour of Ludlow, Presteigne, Ross and
B’ham,”[Heterotopic pancreatic cyst of the stomach wall].
A 28 year old female was admitted to the hospital with dolorous postprandial swelling of the left upper epigastrium, occurring since the recent death of her husband. After an asymptomatic interval of eight years pains similar to biliary colics occurred increasing in duration, intensity and frequency during the following year. Sonography and computer-tomography indicated a pseudocyst of the pancreascauda adjacent to the left lobe of the liver, spleen and gastric wall. Laparotomy revealed the diagnosis of a heterotopic cyst of the pancreas of fist-size localized intramurally in the gastric corpus which was totally resected. Histologically a granulomatous partially transformed cyst in a heterotopic pancreas was identified. The patient became symptom-free after the operation.