for townshend, t's another economic incentive to keep dependents."e of" >> my daughter menta, for ecexample, has got a full um autistic boy, and when wmuworked out ho it would cost to get him through education, it came to a llion pounds. and i employ people and the band and it's great to be the person who kind of decides whether that happens or not it's a m>>ent of power. reporter: well, isn't it a moment of power to go on tour to have all those people sticking a with you f these years, your fan base? >> hmmm, that isn't me. i don't feel excited.he i feel i'm to do a job. there's no thrill. indeed, i would say that ion't i limuch. as i said to my wife, now, rachel, i id, you know, i must be a really brilliant actor. i ook like i'm enjoying it because i really don't enjoy it. i it as a job and i find incredibly easy. so easy. i don't even have to think about r . >> reporter: ovethe years townshend brought energy aplenty to the stage. the who's lyricist and lead guitarist became known for his windmilling and tilating his instruments. doou still jump? >

>> reporter: in 2003 townshend was arrested on child porn charges.ays said it was part of his own sting operation >> we were just trying to demonstrate that banks needed tk stopg money for this. it's not like buying playboy magazine.as itonsequences, >> reporter: townshend himself says he survivedhildhood abuse. i ad been damaged. i always used to say, you know,d i'm likemond with a flaw and the flaw is that period of abuse. it was brief in my case. i waonly with my grandmother for two years. that was pretty terrifying. and, you know, at 74 years old, oh... you know, it's still here. it's not something that's ever gonna go away. and i should use the wor ssexual abuse,uldn't shy away from that. some of the abuse that i w suffer sexual. >> reporter: from your grandmother? >> yeah. and friends of my grandmother. my grandmother wasff her trolley, unfortunately. >> reporter: "tommy," the film and broadway hit rock opera umout a boy struck deaf, d and blind by trauma, turns out to have been an allegory of that experience. >> in tommy, i completely unconsci

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." >> i'm jamie colby, and today, i'm visiting townshend, vermont. classic norman rockwell america. it's the kind of place where neighbors can still leave their doors unlocked and where a country lawyer can let clients pay him with food from their farm or dinners at a restaurant or gifts of some kind. in fact, that's how this "strange inheritance" story begins. >> my name is paul weber. my father was a lawyer in small-town vermont, who was always willing to help a client out. and that's how i ended up inheriting a really cool and really old chinese relic and a pretty strange story to tell. >> i'm jamie. i meet paul, a local math teacher, and his wife, sarah, at their home. >> come on in. >> thank you so much. the residence doubles as a bed-and-breakfast the couple have run for almost 30 years. i couldn't help but noticing, as i came in, you have a lot of exotic art. >> my father was always interested in asian art and he dabbled in painting a little bit. and so that's why we have lots of things around the house. >> when paul's father, bruce weber, wasn't practicing his painting skill

the townshend acts, all these , the king george's edict to the american colonies not to settle the ohio valley. over a long train eight of time, 10 years or more great britain and the parliament ndand the kings are pushing more and more down on the american colonists and sometimes they would draw these signs and sometimes they don't but the pot finally boils up from 1774, then results in the declaration of independence in 1776 and she's watching all this but she's really not involvedat all . like a lot of people she's not involved and there is no record of her knitting socks for the american revolution or hosting fundraisers or bundles for american members of the colonial army, nothing like that . she was an observer best. >> host: george washington at the time was probably themost famous living american .he and ben franklin. ewas she ever in any danger during the revolution? you would think as the most famous american you would ulthink the british might have sent someone tocollect his mother . >> guest: didn't engage in things like that and i'm not sure how widely known she was not a s