The Real Oregon

If you find yourself staying in Klamath Falls — a city with not a lot else to recommend it, except for the incredible high desert countryside that surrounds it — check out the Best Western Olympic Inn, which sits at the corner of Washburn Way and South Sixth Street.

Though it’s unremarkable on the outside, and located in a hellishly ugly fast-food suburb (across the street is Burger King and Office Depot), you’ll be pleasantly shocked when you enter the pine-paneled lobby, which is chock full of hunting and fishing lodge taxidermy: a wolf, a mountain goat, a black bear, even a cougar. Overstuffed leather chairs and sofas make this a place to linger and read a magazine.

Better yet: The free breakfast (6 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the lobby) includes biscuits and gravy.

Best of all: Every night at 8 p.m. the staff serves milk and cookies in the lobby. Not just cookies but fresh-baked cookies, whose aroma fills the building, tempting even the abstemious.

All rooms are non-smoking.

A little spendy at $150 a night for a room with two queens, but entirely worth it for the atmosphere.

For the first time in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 72-year history, a play was canceled last week because of a bomb threat.

A Friday afternoon production of Tom Stoppard’s “On the Razzle,” one of the hits of the season, was called off while police defused what appeared to be a bomb planted next to the hideous statue of Abe Lincoln (pictured above) that stands in Lithia Park next to the Angus Bowmer Theatre.

The statue is so bad that it’s frequently defaced and recently was without a head; the replacement head appears to belong to a much larger body.

Also evacuated was City Hall and several restaurants. The bomb turned out to be nothing but batteries, wires and a timer.

The festival handed out refunds and replacement tickets.