drafty

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.

The barnlike wooden building is drafty and unheated, its dark wood and skeleton of support beams and framing unfinished and exposed.