European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns comments today crossword searching for summertime by Ellen Goodman Casco Maine the talk on the Island is of people who have simmered Here two years or 20 Greet each other on the Road these Days and Swap talks full of the evil omens of you believe that the town Hall has put a quota on Clam pretty soon youll need a License to pick did you see the big City papers for Sale at the store the new York for did you hear about the old learn Lin cottage that sold to some Highlander for its not even on the i Here is much followed by an Exchange of memories of what it was like when i first came one says to another in rueful someday Jhc Yll be building condominiums Down at i he the word condominium is uttered slowly like a five syllable the scene is reenacted up and Down the Gold coast of Maine i up and Down the shorelines of the Atlantic and the its like this in every Rural Refuge that attracts its own Loyal tribe of summer i or the most these summer people have spent their Winter work lives in offices that must be reached by Many have moved two or three or 15 times until some cannot name their Hometown they Tel communicate or travel or High tech most of the year in a fast paced but in even those who consider themselves progressives in their Fields resist the advances on their sum Mer in they rail against each subdivided potato each new onslaught of each Inch of pavement that encroaches on their they want this Hometown at least to stay the Way it exists in their Winter imagination warm and full of Clear with an ancient red flannel shirt on the a Mackerel Jig in the lop Beach Glass in the a wonderful waiting quiet broken Only by the sound of they want it to stay the even if it is a its to be i summer people Are not like the other vacationers who pick up roots each year and pack them into they dont want to go somewhere what is unusual to them is a sense of what they want in a transient world is a right to so it happens in a Hundred summer the very people who come from the world of instant Money machines and 24hour convenience stores arc War weather boosters of having found a place of their summer Folk become its most fierce let others Call them but it is the in Access the the haphazard Independence of Rural life that insulates a Community where children can still hitch where adults can leave doors where a crime wave is a Midnight rider knocking Down they know from experience what a place does not have protects what it does i suppose that those who go to islands like this one Are a hardcore subspecies of summer water is the last line of defense against malls and the Ocean May be a Saline preservative against those who choose islands choose also to believe that the fog can protect their Refuge the Way the mists and magic protected yet there is an irony to All this that does not escape the people who measure and talk of each year the world of their Winter lives creates a greater demand for this Small summer there Are More gypsies who follow work from one City to another and try to put Down roots in the special attraction of entices the crowds who inevitably transform them into sub Divi the growing need for Retreat impinges on each there is a fragile ecology that separates Shore from it Hast happened not not there Are no people still look up from their hammocks in greeting when someone walks by their but lately there Are tourists on the main Road who do not know to return the Island and or so i am has just installed an answering c Washington Post writers group Halo save Earth from aliens by Art Buchwald while Buchwald is on vacation we arc reprinting some or his columns from the is there organic life in outer space this is one of the major questions being asked in scientific circles does this organic life resemble and if what Type of life exists on other planets what effect will it have on first of All As and then secondly As human beings it is not too Early to worry about these problems and to prepare for i have already started an organization to hate life in outer i As do Many of the people who have joined my that life in outer space presents a danger to every woman and child in the and the Public must be alerted to these dangers before we make the fateful step of being taken in by beings on other who will in All probability try to dominate there Are some Munich minded individuals who Are prepared to make friends with the organisms in outer they Are willing to Trade our Way of life for ways of life foreign to they Are Blind to the dangers of taking up with people if you wish to Call them that who have none of the the background or the intelligence that we have on it is for this reason that the society to hate life in outer or As it is known for was we must combat ail attempts to come to terms with life in outer space or lose our own in the my society believes that there is something inhuman about life in outer if they were our As they pretend to Why Haven they made themselves known Why Haven they come out and declared that there is life on other planets what have they get to hide obviously there waiting for us to make the first they want us to go to they prefer to tackle our boys on their own surely they must know about our attempts to get into outer the Money and Lime and Effort being expended to reach but have they cooperated in any Way have they offered to pay part of the Cost to get one of our people out to them they have but once we make it to one of their then what will we be greeted As scientists in search of new worlds to conquer will they understand that All we want to do is study them and find out what makes them tick i hardly think  try to kill if their weapons Are not up to then  try to win us Over and pry on our if this Doest  try to go to school with our Halo is not waiting until men conquer we Are preparing an educational program i think All books on outer space should be and Only those that affirm our Way of life should be allowed on Library i think All our astronauts should be briefed on the dangers of life in outer they should be Able to recognize the Congress should hold hearings and Call witnesses who have defected from outer space to show what could happen on our planet if outer space organisms infiltrated our government and labor we have the Money for such a what we need now is the cooperation of every it int too Early to our slogan is would you want someone from outer space to marry your Sis Ter y c los Angeles times you finishing my suite pu75m5 at some thing of a Cross 30 on th5 Ioup stay my Kab Vional iwo the cultivate a what  tak5the caucus second across High school dance 4attilas forces 8 hang ten 12 Juan persons wife 13 on 14 head to foot 15 Scenic View 17 ten spot change 18 deep Cut 19 cartoon Section 20 laziness 22 poker holding 24 easter Bloom 25 Early musical instrument 29 Francois Friend 30 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