In Chicago there was a place, one upon a time, called BUGHOUSE SQUARE where free speech flourished. Anarchists and Socialists and Communists and Fascists (sometimes called Libertarians ;-) -- everything was there out in the open in the shadow of the venerable old Newberry Library. It was haunted by the ghosts of speakers like Vachal Lindsey, Floyd Dell, Ben Reitman, Carl Sandburg, Maxwell Bodenheim, August Spies, Studs Terkel (still going strong), Iberus Hacker, Edgar Lee Masters, Jane Adams, John Reed, Slim Brundage, Sherwood Anderson, Thorstein Veblen, Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow---to name a few.

Well, this thread reminds me that Bughouse Square is NOT dead. It has just moved into cyberspace. Thanks for taking me back there though.

Art Thieme