Im going to have to aim this question at the slightly older current or former Lawrencians who would have been attending counter-cultural type parties in the mid-1970s. You know who you are. :) In the 1974 timeline of the J-Ws Old Home Town Ive been mentioning the Big Eat that took place that summer. It was a big outdoor party (originally operating under another name that is escaping me at the moment) that was usually hosted on the Schall farm, but in 74 Vern Miller and a few other folks tried to close it down, saying it constituted a common nuisance and that the previous years party had turned out to be a place where violations of the uniform controlled substances act occurred and were permitted to be carried out. According to the articles I found, the county district court judge issued a restraining order to keep the party from happening on its original site, but everyone in the courtroom from Schalls supporters to Kansas Atty. Gen. Vern Miller was aware when the day-long hearing was over that the Big Eat could be held this weekend, anyplace but Schalls. Nudge nudge, wink wink. Eyes were kept open and ears to the ground on the planned day, but authorities were at first unsure where the party-goers had ended up. It ended up happening on a spot near Stull Road (possibly near the site of the north shore of the future Clinton Lake, which was still in the construction stage at that point). Subsequent news reports said that the party fun had been a bit dimmed by the stabbing of two motorcycle gang members. Does anyone out there remember this party, either in 1974 or in another year? I am not asking as a J-W person, as Im not going to be writing more about it; Im just curious. That time in Lawrence history happened about 10 or more years before I moved here, and I would have been a little too young for those parties anyway. :)
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:14:04 +0000
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