The Sea Gull Saga Part 1

The Sea Gull Saga Part 1

    In October and November of 1995, Mike L. Evans wrote The Sea Gull Saga, a two part series for The Mendonesian, a local Mendocino publication.  Part 1 of the series is transcribed below.  Some of the original pictures in the article were not usable....
Fire !

Fire !

A typical winter day: cold, clear, calm, quiet.  I walked downstairs from the bedroom in the house next to the restaurant, the historic Jacob Stauer House.   In the kitchen below, I looked out the window into the garden behind the Inn.  There wasn’t much left of the...
Mickie and Michael

Mickie and Michael

The thing about musicians, at least the ones I know, is that they live for the music.  Money, fame, name-dropping—that’s not where it’s at.  I was always amazed when a musician, starving, unable to pay the rent, would show up at the drop of a hat to help with a...
Clifford

Clifford

Clifford came with the restaurant.  He traded errands and odd jobs for food.  He could have afforded to pay cash but the Sea Gull was his home and nobody paid cash for food at home.  Ice cream and butter were cheaper at Safeway, so Clifford toted them down on his way...