I've been up to my eyeballs in pr*stitutes recently.
Now, if I was a different kind of person, I'd end the blog right there. I'd write that opening line, and I'd just walk away, leaving everyone to wonder just what the heck I've been doing in my spare time. But thankfully, at least for you, I'm not. So here's the reason I've been up to my eyeballs in pr*stitutes recently--
History Jim made me do it.
(And if you're wondering why I'm writing “pr*stitutes; well, Google's Blogger program flags the real word as “unacceptable” and won't post it).
Anyway, the big “Legends & Lore II: Even More Legendary” program I'm doing with Jack Deo is coming up in a few weeks at Kaufman Auditorium (tickets still available, hint hint), and one of the things I'll be talking about is what we've discovered about (apparently) Marquette's favorite old-time lady of the night (and day) since introducing her during the “Walk On the Wilde Side” tour last year. After all, it's an amazing story, and since no Jim Koski ™ program isn't complete without either hookers, killers, or bootleggers, well...that's why I've been up to my eyeballs in them?
(As a bonus, I will be talking about killers, too. I just haven't spent days digging through research on them).
As always. the segment on Marquette's favorite old-time pr*stitute will be (hopefully) one of the funniest of the show, if only because all I have to do is read what local newspapers printed about the “problem” back in the 1880s. It would be putting it lightly to say they went over the top in writing the subject, treating it as if it were to be the end of the world if a little hanky-panky was going on. So to hopefully get big laughs, I don't even have to come up with a punch line. I just have to read what a newspaper wrote.
I just wish ALL history programs were that easy!
Of course, I had to dig through all kinds of newspaper articles from the 1880s to the 1920s to find the best, and that's why I've been up to my “eyeballs” in pr*stitutes the past few weeks. So sure, I've spend time on everything from old schools to department stores to sidewalks (long story), but a big chunk of that time goes to the ladies of the night and, perhaps more importantly, the loggers, sailors, and (gasp) community leaders who kept them in business. Let's just hope that all the work pays off in some big laughs.
I think it will.
Like I said, the program is two weeks from Thursday--January 23rd--at 7 at Kaufman, and unlike most of my programs is actually a fundraiser for the Marquette Regional History Center so you will need a ticket to get in, but I can make this (almost) 100% guarantee—you will laugh at least once. Because with the material I've gathered, if you don't, then I've really lost my touch!
Speaking of which, an amazing discovery I made while being up to my eyeballs in pr*stitutes. That story tomorrow.
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