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Article: Kesey deserves statue of honor.(Columns)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2002
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Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard
ONCE, WHEN I was in Ketchum, Idaho, I stood by the snow-covered grave of Ernest Hemingway, whose writing inspired me in my high school years.
Once, after interviewing a blind 800-meter runner from Atlanta, I took him to the Steve Prefontaine memorial on Hendricks Hills so he could feel the rock outcropping where his hero had died.
Once I ran my own fingers across the name of Springfield's Timothy Ownbey - a young man I'd written about - on the Vietnam Wall.
There's something important, it seems, about being reminded of people no longer with us - but who made a difference in our lives - and, thus, ...