Echos of 1968 Now and Again
Labadie Collection curator Julie Herrada's favorite piece in the exhibit is the poster hanging on the right: "You can't jail the revolution. Stop the trial. Free the Chicago 8."
As the tall, wiry gentleman, who’d been younger back in 1968, finished off an impromptu vocal performance – “There ain’t no time to wonder why, Whoopee! we’re all gonna die!” – a couple dozen people standing in a semicircle applauded the effort. Chuck Ream doesn’t randomly show up to the Gallery (Room 100) in the UM Hatcher Graduate Library to entertain folks with Country Joe McDonald protest songs from the ’60s – the occasion was an informal tour of a show organized by Julie Herrada, curator of the Labadie Collection at the UM library. The show, which is on display through Dec. 19, is titled “The Whole World Was Watching: Protest and Revolution in 1968, Selections from the Labadie Collection.” [Full Story]