What I longed for, back then at Ozette, were places in between, those “providing the means for people to gather easily, inexpensively, regularly, and pleasurably.” The sociologist Ray Oldenburg calls them “third places” in his in 1991 book The Great Good Place, and also in other, subsequent works. Third places, as he explains, are not homes (“first places”) and they are not places of work (“second places”); they exist apart from the structures of both domesticity and professionalism; they are accessible, affordable, lively, and, above all, public arenas in which people are permitted to congregate without deferring to stated terms of inclusion or exclusion. They take the form of coffee shops, libraries, cafés, bars, general stores, parks, and squares—spaces which might, at first glance, appear to have little in common apart from their publicness. But these places are, Oldenburg argues, a necessary requirement for the prevention of social malaise.