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grew over dnnks at bars late at night and discussions of poetry, philosophy and politics. At that time Kilpatrick was writing a three-days-a week syndicated political column and covering the 1968 campaign. Of course they were political odd fellows as McCarthy was generally a liberal and Kilpatrick a conservative. At that time Kilpatrick had bought his Rappahannock property but had not yet built his house on it.
In 1961 my father bought Hawthorn Farm from Irv and Myra Wolf. The Wolfs kept back about 12 acres when they sold it - six acres on the other side of Hawlin Road (Rt. 618) that was the only piece of the property on that side of the road, and another 6 acres surveyed off on the south side of the road to protect the view from the house. There was a vertical shot gun house on the property - a little tenant house that was one room wide and long by three stories high. The Wolfs built the house that Gene bought from that tenant house.
I first encountered Gene in Chicago at the Democratic Party Convention in 1968. Of course I had followed his 1968 campaign and was a supporter. My father was editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard newspapers and attended the convention in that capacity. He invited me along and I was in the convention hall on the day Humphrey was nominated and the Chicago police went on a rampage even invading the McCarthy headquarters and hauling off some of his young supporters to jail. After Gene returned to the hotel - having, I believe, arranged for their
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