by Carl Swanson
Six decades ago in Riverwest, a kindergarten boy stood at the edge of the Fratney Street School playground and watched a steam locomotive struggle past with a seemingly endless train of railroad cars.
“Those engines would shake the school,” Jim Albrecht said. “The smoke and steam would be so thick that I’d miss the first three or four cars.”
May 14-16 PROJECT Q: Young Womyns Empowerment Conference. www.ProjectQ.org THRU May 28 Hotcakes Gallery: Sweet Home Chicago. THRU JUNE 6 MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: Slipware Traditions. 1 SATURDAY ANODYNE COFFEE: Open Mic. 7-10 PM. Saturdays. BREMEN CAFE: Sawdust Symphony. $5. CIRCLE A: Psychephonic Psaturday w/ Krautzeit! THE COFFEEHOUSE: Waking Maggie. $4. 8 PM. GREAT LAKE ZEN […]
review by Vince Bushell
One of my first memories is swinging from an old tree while a steam locomotive chugged past, pulling its load of boxcars on the rail embankment behind my home in Racine. Later an engineer on a diesel switching locomotive would wave to me as I walked home from Kindergarten…
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