When it was all over, I would walk down 57th Street, cut down
Blackstone Avenue to 55th, and make my way to Promontory Point – known simply
as “The Point” to Hyde Parkers, and something of a secret spot where the
children of university professors were rumored to take LSD, a drug no longer
particularly fashionable in the early 2000’s but perhaps of enduring local
interest for sharing an acronym with the very Lake Shore Drive that separated
the “The Point” from the rest of the neighborhood. LSD on LSD.
Layers of meaning – a penchant shared with academic parents educated in
the 1960s.
I went to “The Point” to look out across Lake Michigan, its
vastness so incomprehensible to my Kansas eyes that I would sometimes refer to
it as “the ocean” in conversation, eliciting the ridicule of Chicagoans and
outing myself as an outsider. But
that was what I loved most of all about the lake – that it could alter
perspective, play tricks on the mind, conjure the California coast on an
Illinois plain. And I needed a
portal to California, a way to access all that had happened in the preceding
eleven months.
Jesse Henkensiefken - Cello
Michalis Koutsoupides - Violin / Viola
Recorded spring 2003, Lawrence, Kansas.
Mixed and Mastered by Matt LaPoint.
Original Release Date: 6 June 2004 (Broken Horse).
Image: unknown (viewfinder card from Morgan family archives).
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