BUB the SPACE DOG

The treasures and artifacts not only existed in the Library at Williams College, but they were scattered throughout the Grand House.  The plastic flying saucer models, when not in use to guide the way of the saucers spinning about the universe while the space men were looking for a friendly place to make contact, would be installed in a line in a top cupboard shelf, and you'd have to pull a small ladder to get one down or stand on your tip toes if you were taller.

But in the drawer in the kitchen, the old wooden utensil drawer with a turned glass knob, was an envelope.  Dr. Hopkins and I had been talking to someone, and they had mentioned something about a dog.  And I asked, "Dr Hopkins has a dog?" because I'd never seen one in his house.  But it turned he had a dog that was in the kitchen utensil drawer.  And I said to Dr. Hopkins, "You have a dog here?"  And he nodded, and said "Bub."  (Bub?  I wondered?)  And Dr. Hopkins lead me into the kitchen and showed me where Bub lived.  Which was a kitchen drawer.  Well, this was interesting to me, because the dog was in an envelope, and Dr Hopkins slid out a little card holding a piece of black fur glued to it.  And he held it up to me and said "Bub."  Then he put it away.  Well, it took me awhile, but I did discover that Bub was a REAL DOG ONCE and HAD GONE INTO FLYING SAUCERS with his owner, who was a contactee, as well.  That guy whose name I forget now used to lecture about his trip into flying saucers somewhere far in the South and sell a little piece of fur from his dog Bub to the onlookers for a small bit of change.  And Dr. Hopkins had one of those, and THAT has been lost now to history because he'd been foreclosed upon and had to get rid of all his personal possessions, or maybe Larry Leon found it and threw it out for the garbage men after the estate sale.  But he's one of the contactees who was a visitor on the estate when Dr Hopkins held his flying saucer conventions as part of the Understanding Movement at the Claremont Hotel. 

When BUB made his trip into space, it was years before Laika actually went up, so we were still ahead of the Russians back then in space research in conceptual terms even though everything had a carnival atmosphere wrapped around it.