At
the mouth of the Coquille River, twenty miles south of industrial
Coos Bay, easygoing BANDON combines old-town restoration with a strong
New Age, arts-and-crafts presence. It was originally a Native American
settlement, swamped by the onset of the Gold Rush. The twentieth
century began rather ominously, when townsfolk dynamited Tupper Rock,
a sacred tribal site, to build the sea wall, and the town was cursed
to burn down three times: it's happened twice so far, in 1914 and
1936, and the superstitious are still waiting for the final conflagration. Hostels in bandon
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