Hi I attended new Treir high schoolin1954- 58.Often a group of us would go down on the train to Bughouse square. In those consevative times it was my first exposure to radical though and beat culture. Most speakers were socialiists but i remember some fundamentalis and avocates of free love. We were to chicken to speak but often challanged the speakers and got into a lot of inspired conversations. I bough my copy of Naked Lunch first printed in Big table review at a bookstore a few blocks away.Good luck with the festival I wish I could make it Ray Hadley (now living at lake Tahoe California)
In the annual Bughouse Square Festival at Washington Park in the Near North Side of Chicago, participants follow a tradition of public speaking at this location that dates back to World War I. The 2009 festival is sponsored by the Newberry Library, the McCormick Freedom Museum and the Poetry Foundation. This year's event is Saturday, July 25, 2009 from 1 - 4 pm. Admission is free and is located at 901 N. Clark (across the street from the Newberry Library).
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Hi I attended new Treir high schoolin1954- 58.Often a group of us would go down on the train to Bughouse square. In those consevative times it was my first exposure to radical though and beat culture. Most speakers were socialiists but i remember some fundamentalis and avocates of free love. We were to chicken to speak but often challanged the speakers
and got into a lot of inspired conversations. I bough my copy of Naked Lunch first printed in Big table review at a bookstore a few blocks away.Good luck with the festival I wish I could make it
Ray Hadley (now living at lake Tahoe California)
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