Bèr Eggen
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Bèr Eggen was well known to many in Maastricht. Indeed, if one had the good fortune to walk around the City in his company, one not only learnt much about its history and folklore, but one learnt much about its people. Everyone knew Bèr; Bèr knew everyone. He was Prinz Carnaval of Maastricht, and through that office - an office he held as dear as any Cardinal or Courtier might hold their commission - he met people. Bèr's gift was to take people as they were, to take people as he found them, and to walk a little time with them on their journey. He was not a religious man, he was no saint, he knew that he only knew some of his weaknesses; but he was a genuine man, an authentic man.
The Eggen Society
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We, some of Bèr's friends, meet to remember him, and to talk, as we did so many times with our old friend.
We have some simple rules - we do not wear socks at our meetings, we start in the last café of the previous meeting, and it is not an official meeting unless at least one member is recognised by a random person outside the group during the course of the evening. The Eggen Society is open to anyone who shares Bèr's enthusiasm for history, for philosophy, and for fraternity - and who also rejects socks.
