Interview access- Public Library

Over the past two semesters, I have come to know the first floor of the Rochester Public library as the only place where wireless internet is accessible and the preferred place for unhoused men to escape the cold. After a few months of fleeting pleasantries with a number of regulars (pleasant conversation attempts tend to be the norm in Rochester as attempts to befriend passersby and fellow library patrons instead of overt panhandling since the practice became illegal within the past few years), I got up the courage to ask two men if they would be willing to be interviewed about the July 1964 events. One was eager to be interviewed for a price, and I refused-claiming unemployed student status. The other was willing to be interviewed for free, but was unsure how much he could remember, it now being 2010 (no, not a typo), so I politely declined.

I may try this again sometime, it was at least entertaining.