There some things that just make ya sick. I am for an historic place to stay in good shape for history sake. There some thing eerie to me about this.
Keeping ‘Debsian’ Ideals Alive: The Eugene V. Debs Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary by Mark Bennett, The Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE — The concept of starting a foundation honoring American history’s most famous radical didn’t exactly warm every heart in his Midwestern hometown.
After all, 1962 “was almost the height of the Cold War,” said Charles King, a retired Indiana State University sociology professor.
The Eugene V. Debs Foundation formed anyway, behind “an alliance of Indiana State University faculty members, organized labor representatives, and a mixed group of men and women who shared ‘Debsian’ ideals,” according to a historical account by Robert Constantine, one of the co-founders, reprinted in the organization’s 2012 newsletter.
A half-century later, the home Debs and his wife, Kate, occupied on North Eighth Street in Terre Haute remains a National Historic Landmark and museum, detailing the life of a native son who became a pioneer of labor unionism, social justice crusader and five-time candidate for president atop the Socialist Party ticket. The Debs Foundation, created in 1962, has grown to 830 members “from everywhere,” said King, the organization’s secretary for the past 27 years.
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