HOMECOMING in 'LALA LAND'

Here in Del Norte County at the Del Norte High School a primitive ritual takes place each Autumn at the HOMECOMING GAME.

It is not the ritual of a cross-burning;

nevertheless, the kerosene-soaked rags draped around the IRON 'W' cast into permanent tarmac suggest
Crescent City, California's

RITUAL BURNING of the 'W'

('W' for WARRIORS)

was initially forged to withstand the vicissitudes of any questioning of the

GROUPTHINK this bonding, rite-of-passage FIRE CEREMONY was meant to reinforce...and, to date, THE FORGE HAS HELD.

It is a FEAR and HATE-based FORGE...and the "authority" of the FORGE HAS REMAINED MOSTLY UNQUESTIONED these several years.

Such is HOMECOMING IN 'LALA LAND'.

MAY THE "FORCE" (not the "forge") BE WITH YOU...