June 5ths
6/5/1886 (AI-Generated Chicago Diary) Turner Society building gymnastics equipment—healthy minds in healthy bodies, they say. Strange concept for Americans raised on Puritan suspicion of the flesh. German beer garden on Lincoln Avenue in evening. 6/5/1898, Sunday (Paris) (Harry Kessler Diary) Thoughts about Germans: not industrious, dutiful, only works for money or out of habit. Thinks German talents are half-talents, born salesman, commentator, a daydreamer and beer-drinker. A Renoir from 1872, probably something Kessler would have liked (or collected)--or not. It has a summer light. 6/5/2011, Sunday Austin Gardens. Sound of Shakespeare Theater troupe in background. 6/5/2025 From Shore To Shore, from the north shore of France to the east coast of Ireland, ...
