TALES OF THE CENTRAL COAST

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For one reason or another my father wandered back to southern Louisiana a couple of years after I was born and hooked up with my mom again and fathered another son, naming him Edmund Alfred Chatham, I was named after my dad, Edward Albert Chatham and although we were raised in seperate homes for the most part, this was a source of confusion and friction between us for most of our lives.

Edmund suffered his first heart attack in 1982'-1983' and luckily it happened in Denver, Colorado, and they had an aggressive open-heart surgery "machine" going and were doing 250-300 operations a year. After his surgery, his doctors advised him that he would do better at sea-level, and his lady had family in Santa Maria, California, so they relocated to the Central Coast.



Over the years Eddy, tried to convince me to live in the area and I made several attempts over a 22 year period. Having lost my home and love in Laguna, I joined my brother and his family in Cayucos for a period of soul searching and calm. I told Eddy I would give it a good six months try, and if I couldn't make it in that time I would move on back to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Here, we find Ed, (me), and my dog Honey Bear, April fifth 1987, camped out in brother Eddy's front yard. LIterally...