Musical director and flutist Jeffrey Cohan joins fellow chamber music collaborators in “1800: A Beethoven Band,” in the next presentation of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival, Saturday, June 6, at the Grange Hall in Friday Harbor, beginning at 7 p.m.
Led for the second consecutive year by captain Matthew McElrath, age 14, the middle school’s team Oceanus Explorations guided its ROV, “Orange Crush,” through a series of simulated tasks, scientific maneuvers and subsea pipeline inspections and repairs, with near-flawless precision, scoring 239.6 out of a possible 270 points, to win the regional’s Scout Class at the May 9 competition in Seattle, and leaving even its nearest competitor, with 212 points, high and dry.
I prepared a deep hole, meticulously planning to contain my yellow bamboo, and lined it with a thick rhizome barrier to keep the roots prisoner. No escapees… Now, all that digging, toiling and sweat has resulted in a sweet reward.
When riding shotgun, Lucy likes to feel the wind in her face. But sun in her eyes? Not so much.
Each annual Bonanza show is a joyous mix of the “Island Chordsmen Plus” and guest performers. “Sound Vibrations,” our island all-women Barbershop group, returns again this June. You’ll want to attend just to hear them, they’re that good.
Part-time San Juan Island resident and full-time environmental advocate Fred Felleman is one of nine candidates vying for an open seat on the Seattle Port Commission, which oversees the Port of Seattle, a $9 billion a year enterprise.
Interesting folks make for an interesting club, like a commodore who appears in the local community theater, a world-traveled sailor who plays a mean accordion, a jazz pianist, a retired economics professor who volunteers for hospice, artists, realtors, ex-pats from other states and homegrown islanders as well.
The San Juan Islands Sculpture Park welcome its latest edition recently, a 1,200-pound, life-size bronze sculpture of a running stallion entitled, “Stir’d Up.” It’s the creation of local artist Jason Napier and it took two years to craft.
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine…” Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Dooley Wilson (Sam), Peter Lorre and Claude Rains, as Capt. Louis Renault, star in one of the most beloved film classics of all time, “Casablanca.”
Beginning Saturday, May 23, San Juan Islands Art Museum will showcase the work of wildlife photographer extraordinaire Susan Middleton in an exhibit entitled, “Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life.” The exhibit, which runs through Aug. 21, features many of the mesmerizing, provocative, almost other-worldly images contained in Middleton’s latest book by the same name.
In celebration of National Historic Preservation Month, San Juan Island architectural historian Boyd Pratt will lead a exploration of the Town of Friday Harbor and offer insight into how the few and modest string of wood-framed buildings that once upon a time lined Spring Street evolved into the downtown of fireproof masonry building surrounding the neighborhoods that we know today.
A typical home in the Northwest United States uses 30 kWh/day. With the measures mentioned below and with an investment of as little as $2,000, I could bring the usage down 80 percent, to 6 kWh/day.
“By engaging our capacity for imagining what another being experience empathically, we might shift our perspective to include a fuller picture of the ways we have, do, and will connect, communicate, and share the world with other denizens of this island jewel,” San Juan Island artist Matthew Palmer said of the exhibit’s concept and design.
