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By Jessica Keller QA&Mag News editor
With activities for children to food trucks, the Queen Anne Farmers Market is having a busy and popular summer season.
Director Matt Kelly said, this year, the farmers market has been “an incredible success.”
“In the context of what we’re facing with COVID, we are incredibly grateful for the community support and the customers coming out to shop from our vendors with health and safety in
mind,” Kelly said. “It’s been moving to see how quickly just about everybody came back to shop with us, the folks who continue to shop with us through COVID helped make that happen, helped to bring the businesses back.”
So far, everything has been running smoothly, and that includes the return of favorite programs and community booths.
Despite the threat of drizzle last week, children still approached the colorful Root to Shoot Two-
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Above: Amaya Vora, 8, eats a husk cherry at the Root to Shoot Two-Bite Challenge booth at Thursday’s Queen Anne Farmer’s Market. The Two-Bite Challenge introduces children to new foods they may be hesitant to otherwise try.
Left: Chaya Levitin, left, helps Kate, 6, finish braiding her Challah bread dough at the Chabad booth at Thursday’s Queen Anne Farmers Market.
Civil War veteran buried in Queen Anne to be recognized
The Seattle’s Civil War Legacy will honor Capt. John Marshall Hoyt, a Seattle resident and Civil War veteran, with a headstone dedication ceremony to recognize his service in the United States Army in the Civil War.
The event will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday at Hoyt’s gravesite in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 700 W. Raye St. Everyone is welcome to attend the event and may bring
flowers to leave on his grave if they choose.
The ceremony is expected to last 30 to 45 minutes and will feature the color guard from the Washington State Guard, uniformed reenactors and history enthusiasts.
According to information from Seattle’s Civil War Legacy, Hoyt served the entirety of the conflict with the 7th Wisconsin Volun-
teer Infantry of the famed Iron Brigade, “the most famed fighting unit of the entire Civil War,” according to the press release. Hoyt was wounded twice in combat and participated in such historic battles as Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, the Siege of Petersburg and the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army at Appomattox, according to the information. Hoyt spent his latter years in Seattle and died here in 1923. Since the time of his burial in Mount Pleasant cemetery, Hoyt
had laid in an unmarked grave, largely forgotten for 97 years.
In 2021, Seattle’s Civil War Legacy, a public history project dedicated to sharing the stories of Seattle’s pioneering Civil War veterans, helped spearhead an effort to obtain a federal veteran’s headstone for Hoyt.
The effort involved cooperation with individuals, organizations and museums in both the Seattle area and in Wisconsin.
The effort succeeded, and a headstone was installed on Hoyt’s grave this year.
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The city of Seattle and partners are hosting more arts and cultural events that will take place as part of Welcome Back Weeks, from Saturday to Sept. 19.
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The goal of the events are to help downtown small businesses, arts and cultural organizations and creative workers recover from the pandemic. This set of Welcome Back Weeks will feature small business promotions across downtown neighborhoods in addition to the arts and cultural events. Details on all events can be found at www.seattle.gov/covidrecovery.
The Downtown Seattle Association will continue what it began during the first Welcome Back Weeks in July by stationing Welcome Back Booths in multiple downtown neighborhoods and offering free live concerts in parks and public plazas.
Welcome Back Booths, sponsored by Alaska Airlines, will be stationed in downtown through the week of Sept. 13. Free live music performances will run through the end of the month, and Beers & Bites happy hours return to Occidental Square from Sept. 16 to Sept. 18.
DSA will welcome people to take a spin on the Westlake Park Roller Rink, supported by Community Sponsors Amazon and
Alaska Airlines. Skaters can roll in the park free-of-charge starting Sept. 4.
The first event will take place Sept. 10 at the Paramount. Borealis, A Festival of Light will present free immersive light and sound experiences designed specifically for the historic Paramount Theatre from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Borealis will put on four 35-minute presentations throughout the evening, with extended intervals between each show to allow for cleaning and movement in and out of the theater.
Proof of full vaccination and masks are both required for entry to this event. Event staff will all be fully vaccinated, masked and will be checking for proof of vaccination upon entry. In addition, the Paramount will operate at 50 percent capacity, with social distancing built into the floor plan. Tickets are free and can be accessed through the Paramount’s website, https://www.universe.com/events/borealis-at-theparamount-tickets-2DP6Y5, on a first come, first-served basis. In addition, tickets will be available at the box office that day.
Seattle Theatre Group’s Health & Safety Policy can be found at https://www.stgpresents.org/ about/reopening and is applicable to all those in attendance.
The City and partners will host a Celebrate Black Lives Matter festival at City Hall Plaza on Sept. 18. The event will include performances curated by queer artist collective Legendary Children. In addition, the festival will feature local Black-owned culinary artists and retailers. This event is entirely outdoors, and masks and vaccinations are required.
From 2 p.m. to sunset on Sept. 19, there will be a Welcome Back Seattle finale concert featuring local Seattle artists at the Mural Amphitheatre at Seattle Center. The Vera Project will host doit-yourself art activities, including screen printing and button making from 2 p.m to 4 p.m. Live performances start at 4 p.m., with local hip-hop, soul and R’n’B artists Sango, Fly Moon Royalty, and Essam performing. This is an entirely outdoors event, and masks and vaccinations are required.
Residents can find more information — including COVID-19 protocols and full lineups — at https://www.seattle.gov/mayor/ covid-19/downtown-recovery. Welcome Back Weeks are a key element of the Seattle’s Road to Downtown Recovery plan, which seeks to bring workers, small businesses, and visitors back downtown.
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Queen Anne Manor hosting fundraiser event
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Office of Emergency Management presenting earthquake drills
To educate people on what to do in the event of an earthquake, the City of Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management is hosting two simulated earthquake events that people are invited to attend or participate in this month. The first is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept.
efit, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 16 at Queen Anne Manor, 100 Crockett St. People are invited to attend wearing their favorite baseball attire. The fundraiser will feature a raffle, games, door prizes, live music, dunk tank, Cracker Jacks, nachos and hot dogs and hamburgers.
18 at the Maple Leaf Playground off of Roosevelt Way. The second is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 25 at Jefferson Park, 3801 Beacon Ave. S., west of the tennis courts. Email info@seattleemergencyhubs.org with questions. For more information about the Office of Emergency Management, or to learn about emergency preparedness, go to seattle.gov/emergency-management or seattleemergencyhubs.org.
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Dancing in Queen Anne
Dancers with Vam Studios dance school in Fremont perform at the Trader Joe’s Courtyard in Queen Anne, Friday evening. The performance was part of CounterBalance Now, a program launched by three local women to promote artists of all types and their work in Queen Anne.
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Bite Challenge booth, which aims to introduce children to new foods, specifically fruits and vegetables found at the farmers market.
Each week, program volunteers set out two items sold at the farmers market, usually a fruit and a vegetable, and challenge children to take a bite of each for a reward.
Sheena Eaton, coordinator of the Root to Shoot Two-Bite Challenge, said the reward is a $2 voucher that can be used at a farmers market vendor. Although not a lot can be purchased for $2 at the farmer’s market, Eaton said vendors seem to enjoy the program, and one has taken to creating $2 baggies for children.
“It’s actually really exciting and sort of shocking,” Eaton said of children’s participation. “They come up and try foods they would never try at home.”
Last week, children were challenged to try husk cherries, provided by Skinny Kitty Farms, and heirloom tomatoes from Tonnemaker.
Amaya Vora, 8, who was shopping with her parents at the farm-
ers market, said she liked the husk cherry the best.
“It was like a cherry and tomato combined,” she said.
The Queen Anne Farmers Market is in its 14th week, with the Thursday market set to conclude Oct. 14. This year, however, Kelly said he is pleased to announce QAFM is offering three harvest markets this fall on Oct. 30, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18.
“So our season is expanding, and we’re excited to invite residents and neighbors to come shop on different days of the week,” Kelly said.
In addition to vendors, the harvest markets will each have different programs and activities, Kelly said. The Oct. 30 market, which will be sponsored by David Rice of Edward Jones, will coincide with the Chamber of Commerce trick or treat event along Queen Anne Avenue and feature a pumpkin patch. The Nov. 20 market, sponsored by Metropolitan Market, will feature cooking demonstrations in time for Thanksgiving. The Dec. 18 market, sponsored by Aegis Living of Rodgers Park and Galer, will have a Christmas tree vendor and holiday-themed activities.
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When, why would a clam open its shell?
There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it.
If we spent some time where the ocean meets the shore, or the intertidal zone, we might observe how clams open their shells when they need to eat, breathe or move around.
One thing most clam species have in common is they can open and close their shells using two super-strong adductor muscles. Some clams will use those muscles to open their shells when they are in search of food.
These filter-feeders eat and breathe through a tube-like part of their body called a siphon, which sticks out from the top of their shells.
A clam will use its siphon to bring a bunch of water into its body for two main reasons. The clam gets some oxygen from the water so it can breathe. It also gets important nutrients, or its food, from the water so it can survive.
If there’s any leftover stuff in the water that the clam doesn’t need, it gets filtered up and out a second tube-like siphon. If you ever have a chance to watch this happen, it will look like the clam is spitting into the air.
When people harvest clams for food, they often use a knife to open the shells, and in the process, they also cut the adductor muscles. That’s why we see clams that are partially open on the dinner table —they can no longer open and close their shells on their own.
Humans aren’t the only ones that sometimes eat clams. Clams are an important food source for critters like sea stars, sea otters, seagulls and fish, too.
Another reason a clam might naturally open its shell is to stick out its foot and dig into the ground. Yes, you read that right: A clam has a foot. Of course, it isn’t quite like a human foot.
“It’s one big muscle, and it kind of looks like a human tongue,” Robinson said. Some clams will use this foot to dig into the ground and hide away from predators. A cockle clam can use its foot to sort of flip itself over and propel itself forward. It can use its foot to create this hopping-like motion on both land and in the water.
Along with the WSU Beach Watchers, a group of volunteers who help protect the Salish Sea and Puget Sound, Robinson often explores the shores where there are several different kinds of clams, including the kind
Aknown as geoducks, pronounced gooey duck. It turns out that not all clams have a shell that can actually open and close. The geoduck has a foot that is so large it can’t even fit inside the shell. But the big foot helps the geoduck dig really deep down into the sand or mud to escape any predators.
It’s great to hear you are making observations and asking big questions. Maybe one day you will help us learn more about the intertidal zones that so many living things call home. Sincerely, Dr. Universe
An end, but also a beginning
dvance copies of my new book sit on the counter top of my publisher’s bookstore in Pioneer Square. I take a step closer.
“Wow!” I cheer. “They’re perfect!”
My publisher sighs deeply. As if even his lungs won’t believe the idea of “perfect.” There is always more to do, more to correct, and I get all that, but at the moment I want to run across the street to my favorite wine bar and order champagne!
This is exactly why I love having these meetings with my publisher: He gives me the business side of things. It’s also why he doesn’t much like having these meetings with me. Because I don’t fully understand the business side of things.
“We should celebrate,” I say.
“I wish I could,” he says, sighing again. I laugh because this is a familiar place between us, the same place we’ve been before, and the same place we will be again until one of us backs off to give us both more room, so it doesn’t unnerve me like it once did.
There are occasions when you question whether it’s appropriate to ask someone to celebrate with you. This was one.
I thumb through the pages. For
a minute, trepidation takes hold, a rush of fear that no one will actually want to read everything I’ve had to say for the last five years.
But there’s no going back. It’s the end of a whole long chapter. But like all new chapters, also a beginning. A launch.
I clearly remember the day I finished the manuscript. I sat reading and rereading the last page, and by then not one sentence made any sense, and I had to walk outside three times before I finally turned it in.
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And that’s that. Clean slate. And when I finally got up, I ran the tub and sat on the edge dribbling in drops of lavender oil until the room felt as steamy as it looked.
Submerged in my favorite private place, I felt as if I’d just sent off everything I have to give.
Who was it that said that it is only in the giving that we receive?
I agree.
In another time, in what feels like another era, my first novel was published in the fall 2019, The Star Struck Dance Studio of Yucca Springs. Fun title, right?
Well, that’s what I thought. But by March 2020, it sounded like way too much fun. The story is about a hate crime and how a dancer finds the compassion to forgive his attacker, but even so, in every possible way, the book became irrelevant overnight.
But before it did, I was on roll, teaching dance in every corner of the globe, so that in January 2020, I was in Thailand. So, yes, I caught Covid before anyone back home knew how those two chilling syllables would change everything for everyone.
And, yes, it was bad.
I spent the worst of it on a floating-raft/hotel room on the Chao Phraya River, and it was an awful place to be sick, not only because on top of everything else the rocking made me queasy, but because the bed was hopelessly far from the bathroom.
I remember trying to feel my way to the tiny sink, holding on to the wall and wondering if I’d ever be well enough to leave the room, let alone Thailand.
Three days later my fever broke, and I remember the release, like heat hissing out of me, and how the sound of rushing water suddenly penetrated the room. It was there all along, but I couldn’t hear it before.
One huge plastic bag floated down the center of the river. It’s amazing to me how distinctly I recall that bag, now.
Not to completely change the subject, but for anyone who has read this paper for years, you may remember Madeleine Wilde’s Notes from the Garden.
Though Madeleine is no longer with us, her collection of writings was recently published, too.
I love any writing that conveys what matters most to another, and gardening meant everything to Madeleine.
I’ve never known anyone who loves to garden like she did. True, she can be all observer, present but only through the eye, and starkly informative, “The propagation stuff can happen next month, along with the bulb orders.” But then I’ll come upon a line so intensely personal that I underline it and mark it with a star: It is a quiet time to move slowly, and to look closely. For me, this is where her garden gate swings fully open to reveal how Madeline is not writing about a garden, she is
writing about gardening.
The sentence feels as deeprooted as her beloved trees and shrubs, almost subconscious, like breathing.
I know that a reader may come to our book because of a beautifully designed cover, but they stay for the story.
I wonder if Madeline, upon seeing her new book — its cover, its illustrations — would feel as I do, both thrilled and sad, accomplished and lost.
I feel a little lost.
Sound carries in the garden. On the south slope of Queen Anne, I crane my neck to hear what Madeline might say, “Achievement, like a well-planned garden, spares you nothing.”
Mary Lou Sanelli, author, speaker, and dance teacher, has been part of The Queen Anne & Magnolia News since 2009. Her novel, The Star Struck Dance Studio of Yucca Springs, was released in 2019. Her newest title, “Every Little Thing,” has been nominated for a Pacific Northwest Book Award and is forthcoming in September of 2021. Find copies at Queen Anne Books and Magnolia’s Bookstore. For more information, visit www.marylousanelli.com.
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