Hello! Yesterday I visited some of the sites open to the public through Open House Chicago, which is put on by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. We saw three sites in the Jefferson Park/Portage Park area: Portage Arts Lofts, and visted some of its tenants (Inside Out Art Studio & Mask Shop and the National Veterans Art Museum), the Portage Theater, and the Jefferson Masonic Temple. Next on our list was the Bath House Cultural Center (1019 N. Wolcott), which is … [Read more...]
I Google my name
I Google my name and come up with yours--the exact reverse. I think what if we went to school together, what confusion there’d be at roll call. Ellen, Wade. Wade, Ellen. But you’re older, a ‘51 baby, a country boy from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. And you’re dead, killed in action in 1972, when the chopper you’re co-piloting on a rescue mission is hit by enemy fire and crashes into a small island on the Dak Poko … [Read more...]