In Our View: Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: To Bigfoot. Yes, to Bigfoot — or Sasquatch, if you prefer. The legendary creature is mythical (so far as we know), and yet he is a part of the Northwest culture. For generations, we have claimed the gorilla-like biped as our own, with the most common legends claiming that he and his kind inhabit the forests of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.

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