[UA] Pacific NW Clio sites

[Cassady Toles]

A site isn't famous unless if you would actually feel comfortable saying to
someone who lives at least 1000 miles from it, "You haven't heard of X
location; have you been living under a rock?"  None of the locations you've
named are famous.  Some of them are sites where important things
happened--Translation:  One minor charge at that place.  That's all.

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:13:10 GMT, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  I've got a quick question concerning Cliomancy sites: how famous does 
  something have to be to give off a charge?  For example, roadside markers.

  You know, you're driving along, got to pee, pull over in a turn-out next a

  big stone marker with an iron plate bolted to it that reads: "On March 12,

  1824, Bubba the Mountain Man was the first to arrive on this spot, and 
  decided to name it after his Butt.  Therefore, Harry Point".  It's
history, 
  but not particularly well known history.  Or how about this marker: "This 
  pile of stones is to commemorate Kevin Goofball who was stupid enough to 
  walk off this cliff and died on April 7, 1988".  You remember when it was
in 
  the papers, but then forgot all about it.  The only thing that reminds 
  anyone is this stupid little marker.
  
  I was thinking about it in relation to somewhat famous IN SEARCH OF 
  incidents. I'm making a list of possible Cliomancy sites in the Pacific
NW, 
  and came up with places like Mt. Rainier, where Kenneth Arnold saw the
first 
  'flying saucers' in 1947; Bluff Creek, in Northern Cali, where that
Bigfoot 
  footage was filmed; or the stretch of Columbia River (I think it was the 
  Columbia) where DB Cooper parachuted out.  Sure, Bigfoot's famous, but who

  knows about specific Bigfoot sightings other than Bigfoot fanatics?  And
if 
  the more famous sightings of Bigfoot give a charge, would little known,
yet 
  still published somewhere in the literature, give off a charge?  ("It says

  on page 231 of *Get Your Bigfeet Off Me!* that Bubba the Mountain Man and 
  Kevin Goofball saw three litte Sasquatch lumbering across Miller's Creek
in 
  78.  They took a photo but left lenscap on)  Do local urban legends count 
  then?  Where does it end?  Or should it?
  
  Steve Dustin
  yetiseti at hotmail.com
  
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