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Inhaling the Oregon Country Fair
By DONALD COULTER
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I had never been to the Oregon Country
Fair before and I didn't know what to
expect
"It's like an expanded version of
Saturday Market out in the woods,"
someone told me Just another hippie
scene, others said
Wrong
The best word I can find to describe
this fair is BIZARRE Wonderfully bizarre
As I walk in the entrance, a marching
band in costumes straight out of Alice in
Wonderland passes by A small kid with a
silver balloon twice his size tugs through
the crowd at knee-high level A man on
stilts reaches down and tickles the top of
my head
I turn the corner and come upon a
group of musicians who look like they
crawled out of a copy of National
Geographic One is playing a wooden
flute and the others are beating on
bongos and congas Dancers in medieval
costumes bop to the infectious rhythms
The smells are intoxicating —
barbecued chicken, corn-on-the-cob.
Photo by Erich Boekelhetde
curried rice I want a little of everything
Ten minutes in this place and I am
famished, as if I had been fasting for a
week
There are exotic foods with names I
can’t begin to pronounce I make my
decision, giving instructions with my
finger as to what I want Extra sauce?
Sure, and sprinkle some of that brown
stuff on top, please
People everywhere are glowing with
smiles Everybody is high. Some are on
drugs — in the span of a few hundred
yards I am offered marijuana cookies by
everyone but the Pillsbury Dough Boy —
but most people are high on the joy of just
being part of this three-ring circus.
Watching people is the best pastime A
court jester is eating a cream puff with a
hand-carved wooden spoon A woman
dressed like an elf is juggling bowling
pins The winner of a Mahatma Gandhi
look-alike contest is performing raga
chants for a small crowd
As I make a path toward one of the
makeshift restrooms, I make eye contact
with a guy who has painted his face in
psychedelic colors. "Is this place for
real?” he asks incredulously
I reply only with a smile
Nope, I think to myself Nothing is real
out here And that’s what makes it so
much fun.
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L ast week's seminar on legal
solutions to help end racial dis
putes was a definite success,"
says law school dean Derrick
Bell
"I think the four weeks of dis
cussion and the increased
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