Welcome to the Naglee Parke Archives -- Home of History as it Should Have Been

(Henry Naglee Jr. & friends at Amber Lynn's Chicken Coop Bar, Grill & Brothel, corner of South 13th and San Fernando Streets, May 11th, 1895)

As the director and curator of the T. M. Wright Memorial Library & Centre for Revisionist History here in the very heart of Naglee Parke, I thought it was time to make the vast resources of the institution more available to local residents, and so begins this series of reports, white papers, dissertations, and essays.

As some of you probably know, I have been writing books on all sorts of topics since the mid-1980s. There are about sixty-five of these titles now, and all of them are generally considered non-fiction, and for the most part that's true. But, let me tell you, honey, coming up with enough factual information to stuff a 80,000-word manuscript takes a hell of a lot of work, and I am a lazy guy. It is so much easier to make things up, and often more interesting, too -- as you may remember from school, history can be incredibly dull, and I have found that it really pays to make things up as you go along.

Take Naglee Parke, for example. Most history books, if they mention Naglee Parke at all, consign it to a very boring footnote worth no more than a line or two -- a place where not much happened in the past and where not much will happen in the future. Who wants to live in a place like that? Not me, and probably not you, either. So our archive is dedicated to documenting the odd men and women who have called Naglee Parke home, at least when they were not in jail, and the sordid, depraved, illegal, flagrant, and outrageous activities of these forebearers who made Naglee Parke what is today, for better or worse.

Now, most of the current residents of Naglee Parke today are quiet, somewhat respectable, occasionally law-abiding persons who may have an outstanding warrant or two someplace, but who have kept a low profile for years while hoping that the statue of limitations will expire on any old charges. That's one reason the existing history of Naglee Parke is so dull -- the record has been systematically purged of all its notorious past and wayward residents in the hopes that law enforcement agencies -- local, state, federal, and INTERPOL, as far as that goes -- will look the other way. And, thanks to a tendency of local residents to bribe officers of the law at every opportunity, this campaign has been quite successful till now.

The archives of the T. M. Wright Memorial Library & Centre for Revisionist History are a rich treasure trove of little-known stories from the past 150 years and more -- stories that are virtually unknown to residents of the place today, but that continue to shape the community in subtle ways.

So stay tuned for occasional tales from the past, brought to you thanks to a generous grant from the Henry M. Naglee Brandy & Spirits Corporation, promoting spiritual matters one glass at a time.