I like it…looking at disparate stuff. In random order. The best. Elizabeth and I raced through the pouring rain to Portland yesterday for “research”…a fiber-oriented show at the Helzer Gallery at PCC Rock Creek Campus. Though the gallery was small…only enough room for one or two pieces from each artist, each piece had something to […]
Category: Salem
Love Your Library II: Kristin Kuhns
First, let me remind you of the upcoming fund-raiser for the Salem Public Library Children’s Room renovation, which is on Thursday, November 7th… The Children’s Room renovation will include (according to library staff): “The existing Children’s area activity room and adjacent under-utilized space (where the teen collection was previously housed) will be transformed into a […]
Love Your Library…November 7th…
Maybe you’ve seen this poster around town announcing that writer Ursula LeGuin will be speaking at a fund raiser to help the Salem Public Library Foundation raise funds for the renovation of the children’s room at the library. Willamette University English Professor Gretchen Moon will be doing a question and answer session with author Ursula […]
QUILTOPIA!!!
Wow…what a fun day! (Sunny, bright…bike ride.) Then Sharon and I headed off to the Quiltopia Cottage Tour, organized by Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest…our local Salem quilt shop. First stop was Melanie and Michael Freeman’s house…old friends, former neighbors on Court Street, Melanie started quilting after her daughter took a quilt camp in 5th grade and […]
Oregon Capitol Has a Birthday!
On April 25, 1935, our stately old Capitol building burned, alas. To the ground. A new building was built, a cornerstone was installed in a big ceremony… and a statue of a golden pioneer was placed atop the building… 75 years ago…and this is birthday week. We heard the capitol building was decorated like a […]
The Mural Comes Back to Life!
Back in July I wrote about the James Mattingly mural on the rear of the Elsinore Theater, and the efforts of a group of dedicated citizens trying to refurbish it…and, miracle of miracles, the money was raised! So this week… the work begins… as muralist Dan Cohen (just guessing as to which is which…) and […]
Summer at the Hallie Ford Museum…
We went to the museum this morning to see the new show of Jacob Lawrence’s illustrations of Aesop’s Fables which opened August 3rd and runs through October 27th. The drawings were done in the late 1960’s for a book of the fables, the originals now part of the Paul G. Allen Family Collection. They are […]
Blueberry Chutney and “Turbulence”
SUMMER!!!! So after visiting the MIG fruit and veg stand Saturday (and getting lunch, of course) I got up this morning with the urge for more blueberry chutney. I made some at the beach on the fourth and we’ve eaten it all already…yum. I got the recipe out of the “new” (2012) Oregonian cookbook (“The […]
Restaurant News…
Well just about this time in 1991 we were “building” the Arbor Cafe…certain that soon there would be 10 downtown restaurants opening up. Oops. Never happened. But this summer in Salem the restaurant scene is heating up… Have you been to Maven yet…?? Good food, good ambience…State Street. for Salem-ites it’s right across the street […]
Tree Memorial…
Checked the tree status yesterday…two still standing, tree memorials intact…
On The Way 