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James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. meet up for beer
summit, part 2
By Marie Szaniszlo, Boston Herald - Friday, October 30, 2009
"Maybe we can all just get along!In a setting a tad less formal, with no president or national press on hand, the Harvard professor and the Cambridge cop at the heart of last summer's White House "beer summit" met for a second round - this time, at a local pub.Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley met for drinks Wednesday at River Gods, a popular River Street bar outside Central Square, not far from where their lives first intersected..."

]Exactly what they discussed is their business."Now, now, now, we would never overhear what our customers talk about," general manager Caroline Enright said yesterday, "but it was extremely friendly and very amicable."The black scholar was trying to get into his Cambridge home July 16 when a passer-by thought he could be a burglar and called police.Crowley responded to the call, the scholar and the white cop exchanged words, and Gates was charged with disorderly conduct, launching a national furor over race relations that culminated in suds with President Obama.

The charge was eventually dropped, and Crowley and Gates agreed to meet again.The two strolled into River Gods about 5 p.m. on "Primitive Sounds" night (featuring "Roots Rock and Roll, Gospel, and Blues" with "DJ Easy Ed,"), Enright said.The manager declined to say what the two drank but said they stayed for a little over an hour at the pub, which both have frequented in the past."River Gods is dedicated to the art of conversation," Enright said, "so it was fitting that they agreed to meet here."