Seattle author recounts rise and fall of family fortune in heart of Japan
Nicole Hardy’s “Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin”, has been hailed as a mesmerizing, wholly relatable account of one woman’s hard-won mission to find love, acceptance, and happiness—on her own terms.
San Juan County Residents: Ask for your Locals’ Discount by phone or in person. Purchase tickets from the San Juan Community Theatre box office (100 Second St.), by telephone at 360-378-3210 or on-line at http://www.sjctheatre.org/
Billed as an illuminating portrait of a southwestern tragedy, the book follows the brutal murder that rocked the Arizona border town of Arivaca
San Juan Island author and noted conservationist Terry Domico hopes to tell the tale of Australia’s prickly pear cactus infestation and the cactoblastis moth with the aid of a Kickstarter campaign. Learn more about the strange, surprising saga in a presentation by Domico, Wednesday, Oct. 9, at San Juan Island Library, beginning at 7 p.m.
COASST is looking for volunteers to collect data on beach-cast carcasses of marine birds on a monthly basis to establish the baseline pattern of bird mortality on North Pacific beaches. Data collected addresses important marine conservation issues and protects marine resources.
It’s the best of ‘Island Style’ Bavaria on hand at the 19th almost-annual Oktoberfest celebration, Saturday, Oct. 5, at the county fairgrounds, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
“Savor the San Juans”, ties together under the biggest of umbrellas a whole host of early autumn activities, festivals and events scheduled throughout the archipelago’s three largest and most populated islands.
Come watch this fateful romance unfold between lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin set in the late 19th century.
So, what is this event? It’s none other than the Friday Harbor Film Festival, and it’s the first of its kind hosted by San Juan Island.
The husband and wife duo, known on stage as Beleza, will heat up the rain-soaked and chilly in Friday Harbor with soul, blues, funk, bossa and jazz as well, blending all those generes together into a one scintillating World Music vibe.
Feisty to a fault, Betsy Roberts, presiding juror of the Ruth Neslund murder trial, lived life with flair, and on her own terms.
Rod Crawford, curator of arachnids at the Burke Museum in Seattle, told the Seattle Times in August that the presumed spider boom this year is a phrase he has heard every year for the last 30 years.
