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Add one to the mystery,
take one from the fold.
If you are not from our little village, this month’s
headline might be confusing. We all pretty much
know what it is about. One of ours, as we were told
while sitting on a barstool at the Driftwood, “reached
the speed of light”. Yes, the experience is much like
being hit with a two by four. Ursula Ulrich, 40, was
found dead by her neighbor Tuesday, July 7th. She
had been ill with bad cold, and had gone to the
‘doctor’, which was not her way. The ‘doctor’
prescribed an anti-biotic, and codeine cough syrup,
we are told. Urusla, who was fond of smoking and
champagne, was not fond of the prescribed drugs.
What the ‘doctor’ didn’t mention, apparently, but the
autopsy found, was that Urusla also had an infection
around her heart. We were told that either the
‘bronchial infection’ or the ‘heart infection’ could
have been fatal. Ursula, didn’t deal well with
‘sickness’ She was very strong, and seemed
invincible. She was an artist. And, of course, that
means she was poor. She worked hard, sometimes
three or four jobs to be able to live here and create
her a rt Her art, like her life was an evolving thing.
When we first met she was making strange patterns
on an old computer someone gave her, and which
she loaned us to put out the first few issues of the
Upper Left Edge. She then began to get into three
dimensional sculpture, and started casting tiles, and
large pieces out of concrete. She was commissioned
to do the Fisherman’s Memorial in Astoria. She did
a set of castings that were of the familiar, day to day
stuff of fishermen, a ship’s wheel, loading hooks, a
monkey’s fist knot. Check it out, it’s under the
bridge in Astoria. Some of these pieces are also on
your beloved rev’s, doorstep, and have been for
years, along with tiles on his walls. Her work can be
found in gardens and on walls though out the village.
Yes, she was good. Did we mention that she was a
foreigner? Yes, she was Swiss, and had an accent
The guys at Bill’s, where she worked for a time,
(She worked almost at every place you could work in
Cannon Beach.) would often tease her by mimicking
her accent when ordering their beers. She seemed to
enjoy it and gave better than she got. She had a
quick mind and could devastate or elevate with the
swipe of her tongue. Ursula was a citizen of the
United States of America and this village by choice,
and that isn’t easy these days. For all of our talk and
promo, when push comes to shove, we in this
country and this village don’t really take very good
care of our artists. Most of the artists we know in
this part of the world have ‘day jobs’, most have
more than one. Most don’t have ‘health insurance’.
Most don’t own their own homes. Ursula often
talked about these matters. Ursula’s passion was not
just for her art, which was obvious, but for her
friends and her adopted village. She talked about the
unfairness of the economics of her and her friends
situation. No, she wasn’t a communist, or even a
socialist, but she came as close to a Wobblie as
we’ve seen in a long time. We talked about forming
a Union of Service Industry Workers in Cannon
Beach, and going out on strike on Memorial Day
Week-end. We decided the minimum wage should
be $10 an hour, plus health care, profit sharing and
we would call for rents to be no more than 1/3 the
monthly income of the renter. Yes, she was a
dreamer, and she dreamed good dreams.
When we were hit by the two by four, we
wandered out of the Driftwood, and back to the
bookstore, and told Uncle Mike, and then wandered
to Bill’s and ‘Pendragon’ came in and we told him,
and he was hit by the same two by four, and we
never told any one else, because it hurt too bad.
There was no need, everyone who lives here knew
within hours. It’s a small village, and one had been
taken from the fold. People cried, told stories,
hugged each other desperately, and when they would
walk away, you would here them say, “I love you.”.
It is an important thing to say.
Ursula’s family came and the village had several
‘memorial’ events,, the boys in the band played at
Bill’s the next Monday night, and people brought
lots of flowers from their yards, Tuesday we planted
a Western Red Cedar in Les Shirley Park, by Ecola
Creek, and put one of her tiles beside it. There was a
more formal thing at the American Legion
Wednesday. Ursula was a member of the Legion.
When an American Legion member dies hereabouts,
they put the person’s name on a bulletin board under
the word ‘Taps’. Ursula’s name was there, and yes
we cried, again. People wrote letters to her family,
telling them how she had made some impression on
our lives, and how much we loved her. Our humble
ms. sally and Ursula were best friends, and she has
drawn some pictures of Ursula and her work to try to
remind folks how important love is. And to show us
that art is love, and that it is eternal.
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BILL’S
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188 N. HEMLOCK
CANNON BEACH, OR 97110
436-2202
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
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