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We have been, as our eonstant readers may hav e
noticed, experimenting vv ith longer and longer
headlines that are less and less relevant to the rest of
the paper. We promise to stop soon. I he idea was
to use a headline as a complete thought, or an
underlying theme, that would be referred to indirectly
elsew here in the paper. For example, last month out
headline was Dylan T homas line “ Do not go
g e n tle into that g ood n igh t. R age, rage
a g a in st the d y in g o f the light." A typical up­
beat holiday season headline for the Edge (last
December our head was, (“ He who is not busy
b e in g born is busy d yin g" ), and inside was a
piece on how to behave at the death ol the w orld.
Our headline this month comes from an old Cornish
piece b\ our favorite author, Anonymous. We tirst
saw it quoted on the bottom of a Family Dog Poster,
in the sixties. Professor Lindsey did some asking
around and Valerie at Cannon Beach Book Co. came
up with the more; "From ghoulies and ghosties and
long leggetv beasties, and things that go bump in the
n ig h t, Good Lord, deliver us!
Yes, the winters here on the Oregon Coast are
perhaps similar to those in the southwest of England
in the days of the Celts. The dark times. The folks
that used'to liv e here, about the same time as the
Celts were living there, use to gather in the
longhouscs and sing, pcrlorm elaborate theatrical
presentations, tell the stories ot the people, and
gather together for warmth ol many kinds. And still
today, we notice our little v illagc awake with aetiv ily
in the modem longhouscs. Our hunting, gathering,
building, is slowed by the sheets of rain, wind, the
darkness. We gathcr'by the fires, tell the stones,
renew the bonds ol the people, and protect each other
from those “things that go bump in the night”.
As we begin our new year we have thoughts about
the last three y ears before twenty ought hundred.
When your beloved editor was young, most folks
believed that by now we would be well into
exploring other solar sy stems, llymg around
futuristic cities on "Buck Rodgers’’ rockets with
atomic w rist w atches, and would have formed one
world government that ended all war. Well, not
quite. With just three years lell in this century it
might be w ise to look "back at how far we have come
since 1897. In that year McKinley was inaugurated
President of the United States, and the King of
Korea declared himself Emperor; H.G. Wells
published ’The Invisible Man”; ‘The Katzenjammer
Kids”, America’s first Comic Strip, was published;
severe famine hit India and the Royal Automobile
Club was formed in England. In the next three years
discoveries in science began to build the foundations
of today’s world. The Curies discovered radium, the
first photographs were taken in artificial light, and
Zeppelin built his first airship. We were able to
record and transmit the human voice, Freud had
published his theories on dreams and something
called quantum theory was formulated by Max
Planck. The United States had gained a great deal of
real estate in a ‘lovely little war” with Spain, and was
entering what has been called ‘The American
Century” with confidence.
As we sit at our Mac and surf the net from the left
edge of this country, we wonder what w ill happen in
the next thirty six months. Will there be an Upper
Left Edge? What will it look like? Will there be your
beloved editor, what w ill he look like .’ Young James
will be able to join in vespers at the Church ol Bill’s,
what will Bill’s look like? What will Cannon Beach
look like? Stav tuned.
We must say that w e arc humbled and delighted by
the support shown by our corhmunity and oui
readers in response to our pleas lor help in
publishing “Uncle Mike’s Real Guide to the Oregon
Coast” by Michael Burgess, with disturbing
illustrations bv Steve McLeod, Wildlilc on the
Edge” by Sally Lackaff, and “Letters to Uncle Mike”
bx Michael Burgess. Our event at the Chamber
raised almost $3 grand, and the benefit at the Legion
brought in $ 12 hundred, and we received an
anony mous donation ol one thousand dollars. I his
means that we have the money for the first printing
of 1000 copies of Michael’s book, and we hope to
have it on the shelves, or in the hands ol everyone
who paid in advance, by Valentines Day. Y ou can
still reserve your copy, autographed by Michael and
Steve, bv sending a check lor $20 (lor each copy) to:
The Left Coast Group. Box 1222, Cannon Beach,
OR 97110. (If you would like to take a tax
deduction for your continued support ol 1 he Lett
Coast Group |"a non-profit corporation in Oregon]
make your donation check payable to the Manzanita
Creative Arts Council, write, ‘The Lell Coast
Group” on the memo line, and send it to us.)
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Some of us have know n lor a w hile that there is a
plan to tear down this heart of our daily life. Bill’s
Tavern, where memories were made, lies told, and
dreams born, vv here the wood stove warms cold and
wet folks up from the beach in the w inter. Where
locals can find a few days’ work from a contractor
who is treating his crew to an alter work beer. Bill’s
Tavern, w here l ice 1 ix e acoustic music is played by
local folks, for local folks Bill’s: the place where
everybody know s your name, and what you do lor a
living, who you keep company with, how much you
lost at poker iasi week; and don’t seem to worry
about it too much. Bill’s: where white haired
women of substance sit a table aw ay Horn green
haired young folks and both groups arc drinking
local micro-brewed beers vv ith relish. Bill's holds so
many memories and a lew 1 uzzy recollections lor all
of us. Your beloved Reverend has a vivid image ol
one day, long ago, between the time he foolishly leit
this beautiful spot to v ainly search for someplace
better, and his wise return some seven years ago.
There were many trips here in those y ears to gather
rocks for carving, to renew the spirit and or body,
and often as a stop on a journey elsew here. This one
visit was one of those. Soaked to the skin alter
hiking back from Indian Beach in a lull gale hauling
a pack heavy w ith rocks to carve, your beloved rev.
had reachedthc safety of Bill’s, and the lire in the
stove. Il had been perhaps years since the last visit
so no one tending bar looked really that familiar. A
beautiful voting woman approached (all the female
bartenders at Bill’s arc beautiful and all the male
bartenders arc brav e, and visa versa.), she looked at
the puddle forming under the coat, hat, pack and
boots arranged by the stove and the not to
prosperous looking customer bet ore her. “Can I
help you?”, she said. But her eyes were saying,
“Can anybody help you?” She took a mumbled
order for stew and a Bud, and left, but she kept the
Bud coming. It took the better part of the evening
for every thing to dry out, and by then the power to
form a sentence had" returned to your belov ed rev.,
for a short period, and he had learned that the
beautiful woman was named “small bird” (“It’s from
the I Ching, look it up.”), he also had run up a tab
well into two figures. Small bird stood looking and
the now warm and fuzzy rev. with a look about her
that said, “I’m not feeding this stray dog, and he’s
not following me home.” “So, you want to settle
up?:” she said? From deep inside his wallet the rev.
pulled out the last money lie had to his name.
Luckily it turned out to be a $ 1 (X) bill. Small bird's
eyes widened, she shook her head and she laughed.
And he laughed. And he lell in love. It has
happened since to many people, we have attended
several of the weddings. It didn’t happen to small
bird, but it was still nice.
Getting belatedly to the point, wc all have places
that remind us of love, and Bill’s is certainly one.
Bill’s is in the long tradition of the ‘public house’ in
American, and in fact world history. Where the
‘public’, friend and stranger alike, gather to imbibe
edibles and potables and gage the mood of the
people. The public house has been the scene of
some of the major discussions in the lite ol this
w orld. A place of freedom of expression. A place of
potential romance. A place ol lile. We will miss it.
Wc humbly second Professor Lindsey’s call lor a
round on the house. And sadly wait the last, "Last
C all.!”.
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E d ito r /P u b lis h e r /J a n ito r . The
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P a s t e /P r o d u c t io n /P r o o f R eader:
Myma Uhlig
B ass Player: Bill Uhlig
G r a p h ic s Editor: The Humble Ms.
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