Seattle Twist

Yum. This year’s Conference of the Pacific Northwest Historian’s Guild is called “Let’s Eat: A History of Food and Foodways in the Pacific Northwest” and will celebrate food and eating in Northwest History. The first session on Friday March 2 is at the Nordic Heritage Center and Saturday’s session is at the Museum of History and Industry.

One seminar includes Paul Dorpat, historian and author including Building Washington: A History of Washington State Public Works,  “Keep Clam, Ivar, Ivar’s and the Culture of Clams”

Also, enjoy a Scandinavian Smorgasbord dinner, meet “The Lettuce King of Fife” and a viewing of the documentary: “3 Feet Under, Digging Deep for the Geoduck.”

Mmmm…..  I can smell the clam chowder now!

Always interested in modern art, especially in unusual places, I attended the grand opening of the McLeod Residence, an art gallery/performance space located in an old apartment building in downtown Seattle.  Like galleries in San Francisco and elsewhere, they’re offering “private membership” to augment their income to keep the place running.  It feels like an old bordello with it’s velvet wallpaper and vintage chandeliers, and I look forward to more events there.

I was pleased to see Galen Ward in attendance, founder of Shack Prices.  He and his cute girlfriend Eve were hobnobbing and chatting it up with other gallery attendees, and he was a good sport when I insisted that he bend his 6′+ frame down for a photo, so I wouldn’t look so short petite.

Galen had a piece in the show entitled”Ice Field - No Dumping” that was presented as a transparency in a light box.  Very cool.