Tomatoes, banjos, cancer: Naples man tours world with inspiring story

Tomatoes tried to kill him. But banjos saved his life.

It’s an inspiring story that Keith Alessi tells again and again, everywhere he travels all over the world.

How he got cancer at age 61, just two weeks after retiring as CEO of a coal company. How doctors gave him just one year to live. How he threw himself into his passion, the banjo, after collecting the musical instruments for the years but not being able to play any of them…

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