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Robert Wood: A Video Tribute

The man known to thousands of Kent residents and Kent State students for his unkempt appearance and eccentric behavior was known to a smaller circle of friends and acquaintances as a talented artist and stimulating conversationalist.

When the community gathers at 10 a.m. today for a service in memory of Robert Wood, it will remember him not as the shabby-looking man who wandered around Kent muttering to himself and occasionally shouting obscenties, but as a man with hidden and often unsuspected virtues. In this video by , some of those who knew Wood best shared with Kent Patch what it was they valued so much in a man others generally shunned.

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