grenich village. what i said about the function as a nag innocent for misfits and outcasts, went together for a very long time. i think it's easy to forget now that in most of america until recently, until the 1960s or 70s, if you were artistic or wanted to be a poet or gay or lesbian or radical political ideas, you were a lonely outcast anywhere you live, but there was one place that everybody heard of, this place called grenich village to go, and people fled there from everywhere around the country and europe and found they were not just among other people like them or allowed to be whoever they were as outrageous as that was, but they were encouraged to be and act out, and that's a long tradition in the village, acting out. the outcasts goes all the way back to before grenich village was the village. this goes back to the 16 00s. they put a settlement down in the 1620s. by the 1640s, it's still only 500 people down there, and all the rest of manhattan is bogs and forests, meadows, hills, and stream