Is Linfield ‘second fiddle?’
September 2024 issue of CRUSH
monthly arts & culture publication produced by Visit McMinnville has an
article with photos about “McMinnville’s Art Alley.” Read the article by clicking
on two of the photos posted here.
The article is text about with
a photo of “greeting postcard-style mural for McMinnville.”
According to the article, “Each
letter in ‘McMinnville’ is filled with recognizable local images – the Spruce
Goose, a UFO, farmworkers, the Mack Theater, a scene from the local Lunar New
Year’s celebration, Serendipity Ice Cream, Buchanan Cellars, and others.”
No mention of Linfield. I wondered,
does “any others” include Linfield? I went to the alley to investigate. Photos I
shot are posted here. Link to my video clip:
https://youtu.be/FXxmyV8pyMU?si=J7XnpAzqMxX1idNZ
Answer: No
Linfield.
In the “old days,”
McMinnville was known for Linfield, walnuts, filberts (a.k.a. hazelnuts),
Turkey Rama, McMinnville Industrial Promotions, the Linfield campus you drove
by en route to the Oregon coast, the Rocket Café, Alf’s Ice Cream, the Blue
Moon and others.
At two corners of 99W/Baker
Street & Third Street is signage with “hands” pointing to noteworthy places
in McMinnville. Linfield used to be there. Not anymore.
If you’ve attended a
concert with an orchestra playing, you know it takes many instruments – not to
mention musicians, a director and others – to make beautiful music.
McMinnville is, in a sense,
an orchestra. It takes many people, places and things making it what it is.
Is Linfield ‘second fiddle?’
….
Postscript -- In
case you don’t know the idiom “play second fiddle,” it means “to be
less important or in a weaker position than someone else.”
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