Anyone who comes for a visit here will find a place where the redwoods meet the beaches, raptors and coyotes patrol the meadows, deer and bobcats patrol the forests. Today's news shows a darker part of the past -- our local paper once styled this place as the Murder Capital of the World. The article is written by one of the young staffers of the paper who had to consult the archives for content. (The sad state of local news in general is that there aren't any reporters left who have any seniority or first hand experience of the past. They've all been let go as part of the newspapers business model changing to giving away the news in URLs.)
That era was still being remembered when I arrived here. The homicidal epithet was trotted out again when Kiefer Sutherland (lately of 24) was around town filming The Lost Boys.
Things are better now. There haven't been any mass murders lately. I'm not so sure about the vampires.
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