BeauSoleil - avec Michael Doucet "Zydeco Gris Gris"

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1. Superbe! Merci n/t

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5. De rien!

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2. Years ago, I saw them perform live at a small venue in Berwyn, IL.

They were great. It's one of the places where the tables and chairs are arranged around a dance floor. That configuration was perfect for them, and we all danced to their music. After they stopped singing, they came down and mingled with the crowd. I shook hands with Michael Doucet.

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3. Used to live in Hinsdale, but worked in Riverside right next you. Easiest long commute in Cook County ...

In the morning the traffic started to back up right where the Riverside exit of 55 was, and at night the traffic started thinning where I got on.

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4. Riverside is a great town, though the curving streets made it impossible for me to drive through.

I probably would have avoided 55 and taken something like 31st or 47th Street. Traffic on those likely got heavy, but probably moved faster at rush hour. But that's me, I avoid expressways at rush hour.

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6. I looked for housing in Berwyn, but the schools (in Burr Ridge were a little bit better) ...

... I never got to see BeauSoleil live. But I sure would have if I could have.

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8. My sister and her husband have lived in Berwyn for 50+ years.

It was their starter house and they hoped to eventually move to Riverside. That never happened. She taught years at a Catholic grade school there. Her kids went to that school. I've not heard good things about the Berwyn public schools, so you made the right choice.

Seeing Beausoleil was a terrific experience. It was a fun evening.

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7. I also liked the sound of the animals coming from the Brookside Zoo after dark when the wind came out of the north.

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9. One of my nieces lives a couple of blocks from the zoo.

I wonder if they can hear that, too. None of her three daughters have ever mentioned it. That must have been weird.

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10. Sometime in the 1918 or 1919 there was a terrible wreck of a circus train ...

... that killed a large number of performers. They were buried in a cemetery in Forest Park close to Brookfield. There were claims that the ghosts of the animals could be heard on some nights. Many years later it was shown to be the animals from the zoo.

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2088

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11. Yeah, I don't live far from that cemetery.

I've never seen the area and memorial though I understand that circus performers are still buried at the site.

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12. They were there in the '90s when I lived there. Been there to see it. Chicago has some amazing cemeteries.

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13. Chicago has some very old cemeteries.

Did you ever get to Graceland Cemetery? A lot of the city bigwigs from a century ago are there. The place has some amazing family mausoleums.

My favorite is Calvary, which is in Evanston on its border with Chicago. It's the closest cemetery here that I know of to the lake. You can hear the sound of waves from it. My Irish great-great grandmother is there in an unmarked grave. I have no idea why it's unmarked and no idea where it is.