drafty

By Sunday night, the Hearts had been sitting in their buckets for two days in a drafty tent just south of the Rose Bowl.

On a brisk mid-March night in the small Northern California town of Grass Valley, more than 100 people crowded around a Grateful Dead cover band in a drafty warehouse.

I’m not talking about a motel in the boonies of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or a drafty log cabin on a lake in Maine or Minnesota.

Large and drafty, the plastered walls still wet, the house was called the “great castle” by Abigail Adams.

Most of the stores — big chains such as Sears, H&M and Forever 21, as well as little toy shops and boutique clothiers — were empty, dark and drafty, their metal gates permanently down.