I was complaining to someone here that back where I’m from Oktoberfest is a big deal but that people out here don’t seem to get down with the sausage and polka stuff. Someone pointed me to a place called Mt. Angel, but that’s too far for drinking frothy steins of grog and driving.

But then today someone told me that Oaks Park, the amusement park in S.E., has one. The all-knowing Internet confirms this. It’s from Sept. 19-21 and mentioned sausage eating, chicken dancing, pretzel kissing. And oom pah bands.

Or, it’s the Pirate Festival (Sept. 20-21) at Cathedral Park. (Portland is mental about pirates.) They say there’ll be music, dancing and reenactment, and Rogue beers, which is the next best thing to a bottle of rum.

Later,
Keith

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