You want your heart broken as an Oregonian? Drive Highway 101 past the wondrous Steve Prefontaine mural in Coos Bay, the rugged area on the Southern Oregon Coast where he grew up. Drive past it slowly on a rainy morning in late May, and see two young men about Pre's age when he was becoming an American distance running legend and a modern Oregon folk hero, see them asleep or passed out in sleeping bags, on concrete, in a tiny public plaza with potted flowers, benches and picnic tables, surrounded by their scattered possessions. They rest at the base of a 40-foot high triptych mural of the greatest sports figure in Oregon history, a god, a colossus, a myth, who came to life and pumped psychic corpuscles into all our bodies and minds for those of us who knew his story.
The Steve Prefontaine Heart Break
The Steve Prefontaine Heart Break
The Steve Prefontaine Heart Break
You want your heart broken as an Oregonian? Drive Highway 101 past the wondrous Steve Prefontaine mural in Coos Bay, the rugged area on the Southern Oregon Coast where he grew up. Drive past it slowly on a rainy morning in late May, and see two young men about Pre's age when he was becoming an American distance running legend and a modern Oregon folk hero, see them asleep or passed out in sleeping bags, on concrete, in a tiny public plaza with potted flowers, benches and picnic tables, surrounded by their scattered possessions. They rest at the base of a 40-foot high triptych mural of the greatest sports figure in Oregon history, a god, a colossus, a myth, who came to life and pumped psychic corpuscles into all our bodies and minds for those of us who knew his story.