Newberry library sits just west of the glitzy mag mile facing a city park that locals know as bughouse square, where free thinkers used to give extemporaneous speeches back in the 30's.
It is a really impressive looking building that always had a special aura to me.
It was a mysterious place to me for many years. I knew that it was a library with a lot of famous old manuscripts, but I thought it was just for scholars and researchers, which is actually mostly true.
I finally got inside when I was invited to a memorial service being held here. I found that it had actually been bequeathed to the city by Walter Newberry. They hold lectures and seminars here. The mystery was solved.
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