Vince Pitelka on mon 10 jan 05
> Just an FYI to folks going to the Potters Council Workshop... I just found
> out (from a friend in Fort Bragg) that Mendocino has no cell phone
> service.
> Apparently, you need to drive 10 miles north to Fort Bragg in order to get
> a
> signal.
I taught a workshop at Mendocino Art Center last summer, and I can confirm
that there is no cell phone service in Mendocino. It is part of the
strictly-enforced "quaintness" of the town. They will not allow the
installation of cell phone antennae.
I love Mendocino, but much of my love of the place goes back to the early
sixties when I spent weekends there with my family. It was already an
artist's community, but many of the Mendosas still lived in those big white
houses on Little Lake Road, Highway 1 went right through town, August Heeser
still ran the Mendocino Beacon, and Homer Drinkwater still ran a wonderful
little grocery on Main Street just up from Bill Zacha's gallery. Emmy Lou
Packard, who trained with Diego Riviera, was making and selling her prints
up at the other end of Main Street. The Calilfornia Western Railroad
served primarily to haul lumber products from Fort Bragg to the Northwestern
Pacific line at Willits, and the "Skunk" tourist train only ran on weekends.
The place had an authentic, "unrestored" quaintness, and a marvelous
innocence.
Here's a thought for anyone who is interested in the Mendocino Coast. Ever
since Mendocino has been a major artist's community and tourist destination,
Fort Brag has remained primarily a blue-collar logging community, dominated
by the huge Hammond Lumber Company (now Georgia Pacific) mill that occupies
a massive strip of land separating Fort Brag from the headlands and the
Pacific Ocean. But now, the mill has shut down, finally and completely.
The equipment has been hauled away and most of the buildings have been
removed. What is going to happen to that land? Will it fall into the hands
of developers? I am horrified to think what might happen, and I pray that
the state park system or the Nature Conservancy is somehow able to get that
land first.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
wjskw@BELLSOUTH.NET on mon 10 jan 05
In the town to which I am moving (in VT), there has long been
opposition to cell phone towers and their "ruination of the
landscape" as there has been in neighboring New Hampshire, where
they let them go up just about anywhere, and seemingly atop every
hill, there they sit.
Our town decided to pioneer a new approach, and asked Verizon to
consider installing the antennae in the local Congregational Church
steeple, (with the church's permission) instead of on the hills.
The church has been there since 1712, BTW. Not much qualifies as
"more quaint", does it?
And there it is, a win-win solution. The church gets a sizeable
check for the "rental" of their steeple space, Verizon gets its
antennae, and I can use a cell phone (mostly) when the mountains
aren't blocking me (but that's another story).
Does Mendocino have a church with a steeple?
Wayne Seidl
I taught a workshop at Mendocino Art Center last summer, and I can
confirm
that there is no cell phone service in Mendocino. It is part of the
strictly-enforced "quaintness" of the town. They will not allow the
installation of cell phone antennae.
snip for space
- Vince
Vince Pitelka on mon 10 jan 05
Wayne asked:
"Does Mendocino have a church with a steeple?"
Yes, Mendocino has several steeples - one on the church (where my niece was
married several years ago), and one on the old Masonic hall. It also has
some very tall water towers. But this may be beside the point. Knowing
Mendocino as I do, it may just be the principle of the matter. They
probably don't want people talking on cell phones in restaurants and
galleries and while walking down the street. They may well want their town
to be a refuge from that. It's certainly a valid concern.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
Earl Brunner on mon 10 jan 05
There's one down the street here in Vegas that is an artificial palm tree.
There can be nice creative ways to set them up.
Earl Brunner
Las Vegas, NV
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Subject: Re: Mendocinio - cell phones don't work, and other thoughts
In the town to which I am moving (in VT), there has long been
opposition to cell phone towers and their "ruination of the
landscape" as there has been in neighboring New Hampshire, where
they let them go up just about anywhere, and seemingly atop every
hill, there they sit.
Our town decided to pioneer a new approach, and asked Verizon to
consider installing the antennae in the local Congregational Church
steeple, (with the church's permission) instead of on the hills.
The church has been there since 1712, BTW. Not much qualifies as
"more quaint", does it?
And there it is, a win-win solution. The church gets a sizeable
check for the "rental" of their steeple space, Verizon gets its
antennae, and I can use a cell phone (mostly) when the mountains
aren't blocking me (but that's another story).
Does Mendocino have a church with a steeple?
Wayne Seidl
I taught a workshop at Mendocino Art Center last summer, and I can
confirm
that there is no cell phone service in Mendocino. It is part of the
strictly-enforced "quaintness" of the town. They will not allow the
installation of cell phone antennae.
snip for space
- Vince
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