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When Steve tracked him down on the Oregon coast, he cruised past James’ home several times before calling him from a pay phone. James’ wife answered, but wouldn’t put him on the phone because he was taking a nap. Steve blurted out, “I think he’s my grandfather.” James’ wife, who knew of her husband’s checkered past, paused for a moment, then said, “Oh, I’m so glad you called.” It turns out she had been encouraging James to reach out to the family he had left behind a half-century earlier. “He ended up living to be 101,” Muriel said. “For the last 15 years of his life, he was reincorporated into our family. He was a really caring, generous, loving man. But he absolutely refused to talk about ‘the incident,’ as he referred to it when anybody asked.” Years after James died, Steve and his family decided to get into the wine business. They quickly decided to name the winery Otis Kenyon in honor of James. Then they figured they should go ahead and include his story as the backdrop for the winery. The front label includes a silhouette of James and has seemingly burned edges. On the back label, a brief version of his story is told. Visitors to the winery often go home with boxes of matches, and the Matchless Red is one of the winery’s best sellers. But it almost wasn’t to be. A month before the family was getting ready to bottle the first Otis Kenyon wines, everyone started to have second thoughts. “We kind of panicked,” Muriel said. “We’re talking about arson. Arson is a bad thing. People get hurt, people get killed. It’s a serious issue. So we kind of freaked out and decided ‘there’s no way we can do this.’” For three weeks, the family spent every waking hour trying to come up with a different name. But every good idea they had was already trademarked. “In the end, nothing else worked as well as this, so we just decided to go for it,” she said. “In the 11 years of doing this, nobody’s ever had a bad reaction. It turned out to be a momentary panic that I’m glad we didn’t listen to.”
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