Travelogue Series Opens With ‘Yellowstone To Sun Valley’
Attention armchair travelers: The winter series of travelogues at Lewis and Clark High School auditorium kicks off today at 2:30 p.m. with “Yellowstone to Sun Valley” by Woody Thomas.
Tickets to the series are available for $18, $16 for seniors, $32 for families. Admission at the door is $3.50, $2.50 for students. The series is sponsored by Corbin Community Center and series tickets are available at the Center, 827 W. Cleveland, 327-1584.
Other travelogues in the series are: “Wild & Scenic Rivers…USA to USSR,” Nov. 3; “Royal Netherlands…The Dutch Today,” Jan. 5; “The Faces of Italy,” Feb. 2; “Europe’s Wild Gem: Iceland,” March 2; and “‘Germany: Wunderbar!”, April 13.
Just tunes - or an entire weekend: Those in the Leavenworth, Wash., area on Oct. 11 can still get tickets for a concert at the Sleeping Lady and Icicle Creek Music Center near the Bavarian-themed town.
Pianist Karen Sigers of Seattle’s Bridge Ensemble and Marcia Kaufmann, Scott Hosfeld and John Michel of the Kairos Quartet will perform a program of music by Faure and Mozart, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $14. A buffet dinner ($31 per person) is also available prior to the concert, prepared by Sleeping Lady chef Damian Browne and Sleeping Lady offers overnight accommodations. A package for two which includes concert tickets, one night’s accommodation, dinner and continental breakfast Sunday morning after the concert is $200. For information: (800) 574-2123.
Sleeping Lady is located at 7375 Icicle Rd.
Snows don’t close this park: Tourists don’t exactly flock to Yellowstone National Park in the winter, but neither is the park left to the buffalo when the snow falls. Hundreds of visitors enjoy Yellowstone in the winter. Those who want to visit this Wyoming park on an educational mission can sign up for one of the Yellowstone Institute’s winter courses. Among the course offerings are “How Mammals Survive Winter,” “Gathering Winter Words,” “Winter Wildlife & Nature Photography,” and “The Tradition of Winter Storytelling.”
The Yellowstone Institute offered more than 83 courses this year; for a complete list of course descriptions and to register for a workshop, contact the Yellowstone Institute, Box 117, Yellowstone Park, WY 82190; (307) 344-2294.
New England from an armchair: This time of year - just as the season of holiday gift buying heats up - a host of coffee-table travel books gets stacked on bookstore display tables.
Certainly one of the prettiest is “Richard Brown’s New England” (Firefly Books, $40, ISBN: 1-55209-070-1). Many of the photos are of sites in Vermont. This book, unlike others we’ve seen of the Northeast, goes beyond the stunning fall color display. The four seasons of rural Vermont and New Hampshire are well-represented. This book makes us want to pack up and move to one of the bucolic Vermont farms forthwith.
Time travel of sorts: A bus tour to Block 40, the site of the 1952 Farm-In-A-Day project in the Columbia Basin, will run from noon to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Block 40 is important in that it was the first part of the Columbia Basin Project to receive irrigation water. The Farm-In-A-Day was an attempt to build a complete farm, including planted crops, in a 24-hour period - May 31, 1952.
The bus tour leaves Adam East Museum, 122 W. Third, Moses Lake, at noon. The tour is free and there’s still plenty of room. To reserve a spot on the bus, call (509) 766-9395.
Midweek discussion series: The focus of a new series of cultural events in Tacoma is writers of color.
The series - “Power of Language: Writers of Color Reading Series” - brings actors and writers of color together for readings and discussion throughout October and November. The events are free and will be held at Borders Books, 2508 S. 38th, in Tacoma.
The readings will segue into discussions about racism, urban violence, sexuality and gender roles, spirituality and mixed race heritage. The series begins Wednesday and continues Oct. 22, Nov. 6 and Nov. 20. For information, call the Tacoma Arts Commission, (206) 591-5194.
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