[Publib] Re: Our Own Private Idaho

[Robert Balliot]

The Tale of the Pirannha Brothers

Luigi Vercotti

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, J B Schallan <jschallan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Judy Turner, in suggesting an alternative to a military occupation of
> Seattle, wrote
>
> "Can we find coffee, tea and vineyards on a nice island, out of the
> path of hurricanes? - preferably snow and ice free and tax-sheltered?"
>
> And Melissa Davidson noted that something in the Puget Sound Area may
> approach those desiderata.
>
> Indeed.
>
> Last summer Linda (my spouse, who is now a *retired* public librarian)
> and I discovered a place that comes close to filling the bill:  Good
> coffee and tea?  Check.  Vineyard?  Check (and with a terrific
> restaurant).  Out of the path of hurricanes?  Check.  Snow and ice
> free?  Check (mostly -- a little gentle snow may fall in winter and
> doesn't stay long).  Tax-sheltered?  Probably not, but nothing in this
> world is absolutely perfect, now is it?
>
> The place Linda and I found is Saturna Island, British Columbia, just
> north of the Boundary Passage that separates Canada from Washington
> state.  If you know Orcas Island in the evergreen state, Saturna is
> the next big island as you peer across the waters looking northward
> into Canadian seaspace.
>
> Saturna Island is gorgeous and off the beaten path, and filled with
> 300 eccentric residents, consisting of -- as our fine host at Saturna
> Lodge, Joe Harris, put it -- 60s American draft dodgers and
> communards; back-to-the-landers; Those Who Cannot Get Along With
> Others; and "creative agriculturalists."
>
> Saturna is one of British Columbia's Southern Gulf Islands, reached by
> the BC Ferries service, but is so obscure that many longtime residents
> of the other islands (Salt Spring, Mayne, Galiano, North and South
> Pender) have never been there.  A bit of local humor says that Saturna
> is the only one of the islands that regularly petitions BC Ferries for
> *less* service.
>
> The Recently Retired One and I have requirements that are amply
> satisfied by Saturna Island -- solitude, natural splendor, beaches and
> trails, good food and wine, and coolness (which, after a brutal
> Arizona summer, we will be more than ready for when we return to
> Saturna this September).
>
> IMHO, it is a perfect librarians' island:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelostdutchman/2765123571/
>
> Seattle, you are safe.
>
> Joe Schallan
> Phoenix
>
> PS.  A piece of my librarians-occupy-Seattle fantasy was mooched
> pretty much word for word from Monty Python.  I will send a Special
> Tacky Arizona-Themed Gift to the first Publibber who can correctly
> identify the sketch and name the character about whom the mooched
> words were being said. "First" will be determined by the timestamp on
> the email message.
>
>
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