Quig Memorial (10/13)

THE ROAD LAWYER: BIKER USES HIS HEAD IN COURT AND ON THE ROAD TO FIGHT HELMET LAW (Jan 8, 2001, Marina Malikoff, S.C. Sentinel): http://usff.com/calbolt/richard_quigley.html

Richard Quigley holds living wake to see friends, family one last time (Sentinel:
November 13, 2005): http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/November/13/local/stories/02local.htm

Quig's website: http://usff.com/quig/

Opinionated locals remembering Quigley after his death:
http://forums.santacruzsentinel.com/cgi-bin/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=005478

Quig's archived radioshows on KSCO: http://www.usff.com/quig/KSCO/index.html

Extensive, often hostile, discussion on Sentinel forum of Quigley's helmet fight:
http://forums.santacruzsentinel.com/cgi-bin/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004382

Transcript of a 1999 Helmet Law Fight in California: http://usff.com/calbolt/history.html#Capitola



Quigley's Support for Disabled Minister JERRY HENRY against Merchant/Police "Social Cleansing" at Aptos Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center:

Clippings from the Sentinel (a critical view of Henry and Quigley):
http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/clippingfile/cliplist.php?subjhead1=637

A Colorful Supportive View of the Quigley/Henry Struggle:
http://www.huffsantacruz.org/streetshitsheet/?p=2

Quigley's Defense of Jerry Henry in 2005 (scroll down past my initiative story on Henry)
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13390/index.php

A Local Conservative" Weekly;'s Take on the Quigley in the Shopping Center's Fight to Ban Jerry Henry:
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/05.26.99/stalker-9921.html


Researchers may also go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org and click on " Descriptions of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides radio shows from August 2005", then search for "Quigley" for some radio interviews.

Hard-fighting, straight-talkin' guy, that Richard Quigley. Thanks for his work.

I arrived, lucky yet late, at first phase of The Quig memorial gathering, Santa Cruz County Courthouse's entry and peace Garden. There was easily a hundred people. tho' some left in a steady trickle as memories continued being shared.

Many were easily bike dudes, many were beyond such easy characterization. By the time Ride-Out to Aptos began, with almost seventy bikes leaving in pairs and quads from Courthouse parking lot, I felt so deeply rejuvenated, surrounded by people who admired and emulated and even resolved to continue the work of Richard Quigley. Such an outpouring of unity of purpose!

Some who spoke has been "as adversaries" in life: County planning agents, head of Elections, owner of the local talk radio, all spoke with equal admiration about Richard's integrity and soverign purposefulness. I ahd my own fine bouquet of memories,having met and talked with him, but was unprepared for the sweep of his reach. What one man can do who is true to himself and honest in the world! Not that Rickard Quigley was a solitary man -- he loved his private self, people said, and never compromised it. Yet their every testimony was another story about his helping, supporting, standing up for, feeding, educating, and always with compassion and clarity, carrying toward democracy through the rough terrain of conscious freedom.

Sometime past 3:30 pm, because the open mic was actually open in the democratic meaning, the shared reminiscences and lessons closed. The cperfect weather conceded to hints of evening, the flag clacking louder again it's pole in thinning crowd, "made permanent" there 24/7, someone said, because the County does not know now to fold in the flag correctly, yet was charged into accommodating Quigley's insistence that it not be done profanely.

Then we all released balloons -- red, white, and blue -- at once, saying loudly the word, "Freedom." Those seventy-plus globes sailing high, taking our merging thoughts; drifting south-southwest, probably passing overhead of Aptos Coffee Roasting DMZ minutes before the Riders would arrive. That will have been phase two. The third phase in the memorial procession was to have been beachside.

I met a wonderful Mom. Was extremely well-fed. Bought a duck-billed helmet with D O T sewn in, before leaving the courthouse lawn. I have not heard yet from those who went all the way?

lighthouse Linda
on 10 - 13 - 07