Edmonds is a contrast. In one sense it is the proverbial hometown with roots reaching into the turn of the century. It is also suburbia personified. Only in recent years did Edmonds grow to such proportions that outwardly its character seemed almost indistinctive. But the hometown element, although harder to recognize, exists subtly in a few old houses, where some of the town's fathers lived or, in the traintracks, docks, and beaches other generations knew as well as this one does ;,ow. This element, the memories it gives, will reflect again the idea of home to the people who will someday remember. Essay 1
2Essay The water always tosses at the shore, the tides never cease and the smell ofsalt adds to the air a remembrance of sand and seaweed. If the wind is strong, the faint odor carries into the town, calling to the contemplators, water-lovers and a stubborn bunch who fish off the docks regardless of the time or season. Wave-watching, too, is a comfortable pastime when the sun sets after a clear day. Sometimes the mountains startle the sky with large, clear peaks rimmed with a rose haze from the sun's passing.
Accompanied by train horns, foghorns, ferry blasts and the sound of moving water, there is always solitude at the beach during some part of the day where listening takes the place of conversation. Yet there is usually someone to be found - - on hot summer days crowds of people seek the sun's rays or at other times the beachcombers and star-watchers stroll quietly at the water's edge. The winter comes and man's feeble imprint is washed away; the only irrepressable presence is that of the gull and the crow who sit on the piers like self-righteous scavengers. I I I Essay 3
4Essay Garbo, Godzilla, and Gable continue to entice movie-goers. Not too long ago the Edgemont was the Princess theatre and admission was twenty-five cents. Now the movies cost more, but Greta still "vants to be alone" and escapism hasn't changed.
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