Show Me the Place, 71

“Show me the place.”

Duke Senior in As You Like It (2.1)

71: Chicago and Lake Forest, Illinois; June 2006

Fitzgerald wrote (in Gatsby) of

A woman—young—and of her love.

He based it on a girl he’d known*—

Before he’d really aged or grown.

And she had lived in Illinois—

And Scott Fitzgerald, smitten boy,

Would write of her in several tales,

Including Gatsby. We found trails

That led to her—to where she’d been

When Scott was young—and ripe for sin!

*Ginevra King

the Kings' home in Lake Forest, IL