Seattle and Columbia River Rolling Seminar
Draft 5/2/2003

Tue. May 20 - THE COLUMBIA, AGRICULTURE

6:45 am gather and depart at 7:00 - Depart Moscow (Sweet Ave. Lot). Geology (Kevin Brackne), Palouse Falls, environmental issues, song, Woody Guthrie and the BPA, storytelling, naming.

1:00 - Celilo Falls (lunch, Wilbur Johnson, Warm Springs elder.)

2:30 - Maryhill Museum, Maryhill Winery. Agriculture, (wine), migrant communities.

6:00 - Yakima Best Western Peppertree Hotel (509-453-8898). 

7:30 - Dinner at El Mirador.

Wed. May 21- SMALL TOWNS TO LARGE CITIES, ENVIRONMENT

8:00 - Travel from Yakima (Northern Exposure clips), stop in Roslyn (Wendy McClure). Forests (Lauren Fins.) Discuss transportation issues (I-5, I-95, bridges, proposed light rail and monorail systems) en route (Nels Reese. Lunch around 1 at Pho Bac (corner of Jackson and Boren)

2:00 - Check in at hotel(Claremont Hotel, 4th and Virginia, 206-448-8600)

2:45 - Wallking/city bus: downtown Seattle including Convention Center, Freeway Park (Steve Drown), new civic buildings on 5th Ave. (tour new city hall?). (Harbour tour at 4 or Smith Tower.)

7:00 - Free evening

Thurs. May 22 - DESIGN, URBAN ISSUES, and ART

8:30 - Seattle design/planning and sense of place; Rick Sundberg and Peter Miller at Peter Miller’s Bookstore, 1930 1st Ave.); Seattle Architectural Foundation, (Smith Tower)

11:30 - outside dwellers, urban poverty, and the new urbanism. Lunch at Farestart, then to Pioneer Square (Gary Johnson, Jennifer Meisner)

1:30 - SoDo area artist studio tour (Scott Fife, 1941 1st. Ave. S..) to 2:30.

4:30 - Presentation by Seattle choreographer Mary Sheldon Scott, and composer Jarrad Powell at On the Boards (1st Ave. and Roy)

6:00 - Dinner at Mediterranean Kitchen (Roy St.)

8:00-9:30 - Performance of Kingdom by Scott and Powell at On the Boards

Friday: May 23 - THE ASIAN–AMERICAN COMMUNITY

8:30 - Wing Luke Museum (meet Bob Santos, Karen and Roy Ko) .Exhibits: Asian American experience in the NW, Densho project.

9:45 - Panama Hotel (Santos and Kos, Jan Johnson,owner); ID walking tour

11:45 - Dim Sum at Top Gun

1:00 - Danny Woo Community Garden (Steve Badanes and Bob Santos)

2:00-3:00 - Immigration, trade, and other impacts of the Pacific Rim on Seattle (Eric Hurlburt, Virginia Room at hotel)

6:00-8:00 - Reception at Seattle U. with U of I alumni/friends; see Tsutakawa Ftn, St. Ignatius Chapel at 8:00.

Saturday May 24 - NEIGHBORHOODS, FOOD, SEATTLE CENTER

9:00 - Neighborhoods and parks: orientation at Gas Works Park (Gordon Walker) Eastlake, Fremont and Ballard. Northwest Cuisine?

12:30 - lunch in Ballard. [Discovery Park: walking tour of park, if there’s time]

3:00 - Northwest Folklife Festival and Seattle Center (1962 World’s Fair site)

Sunday May 25 - PARKS, PATHS; ETHNIC COMMUNITIES and ART

9:00 - Driving tour of Olmstead system (neighborhoods and parks) to U.W. with Susan Boyle. U.W. campus (new architecture; Olmstead)

10:30 - Burke Museum: NW coast art, totem poles, ethnic communities. (Optional walking tour of campus.)

12:30 - lunch (in U District )

2:00 - Leave Seattle by 2. Stop in Issaquah and look at the Talus development?). Picnic and discussion at Vantage.

Return to Moscow around 9:00 PM

Contact information:
    Tuesday Night:  Best Western Peppertree in Yakima. 1614 1st St. N;
        509-453-8898
    Wednesday through Saturday: Claremont Hotel in Seattle.  It's at the
        corner of 4th Avenue and Virginia; 206-448-8600.