Pulling page info to homepage instead of post info

[lakong]

I'm trying to modify a homepage section of the music theme. Right now
the area finds the last x number of posts in a category and displays the
text of the post up to the MORE tag and then included the 'read more' link.
Instead of doing this with a post I would like to do this with a page. Is
this possible? Specifically, I have an ABOUT US page set up which links
from the top of the nav. I would like the first paragraph or two from this
page to be shown in one of the homepage sections. FYI, the id of this page
is '2'.

Thanks,

- Scot