At 6/30/00 03:26 PM -0400, you wrote:
>> Take a peek out the front window of REBOL across the Ukiah town
>> square to the hills beyond (2000 ft elev). The town square has
>> various events worth visiting from time to time... fiddle and
>> guitar bands, punkin festivals, old car shows, dancing dogs with
>> clean hippy kids, the usual Mendocino stuff. Now you can see for
>> yourself why Ukiah was ranked the 6th best small town in America, right?
>>
>> If you look closely, you might see Sterling or Erin setting new
>> inline skating records, Bo doing wheelies in the square, Holger
>> rewiring the exchange, or Jeff burning tobacco. You might even
>> get to see Cindy unloading sodas from the van.
>>
>
>Very nice, but where's the cannon and the great weathered bronze equestrian
>statue of General Carl "Old Code and Glory" Sassenrath, famous hero of the
>REBOLution? Where are the boiled peanut vendors, the maganolias, the weeping
>willow trees? Ukiah has a lot to learn about town squares. I don't even see
>a town drunk?<g>
The magnolias, willows, and town drunk are down the street two blocks. They
are reserved for courthouse only. This square is young... Built just
a couple years ago, which is why there are no large trees. The bronze
statue is on back order from Amazon.
-Carl