100 years past the AYP

A surprising number of people don't know about Seattle's first World's Fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, in 1909. This is the 100th anniversary of this hugely successful four-month event, and there are going to be commemorations at Folklife and other events though the summer.

Here's a little bit of surviving film footage from the event, and a bit more, here, which is all really interesting as I didn't know they had any. The 100th Anniversary website is here, and lists events and the like. There's another AYPE website here, and here are some of the Folklife events. Finally, have a look through the photo gallery, here - I'd totally go to this event, given a time machine.

woodinsleep and sleepyfair

Wow so okay yeah! Saturday! Woodinville, as planned; I alternated a little with a banjo player who did some nice work, and neither of us got much money - but, well, welcome to Woodinville Market, particularly early in the season. But it was fun, if omg hot from playing in the sun. I introduced the new flute song (which is stubbornly refusing to name itself, which is very strange), and the vendors seemed to like it - too bad there weren't really many customers around, but, well, you do what you do. I also played most of the usual things and "Old Black Rum" which I normally don't but was worth playing on Kohaku.

So I got done with my set and went to the Norwescon post-convention concom meeting and election, and the meeting was fine and the post-meeting social at SunnyJim's grandparents' house was fun, and almost-sorta a house concert, because I got asked whether I'd bring in instruments and play, and I ended up jamming with toxic_pink37 and also just playing a bunch of things for people (several things, but including January and Outbirds and Stars and I forget what else) and generally had a good time.

Then today Anna and I went down to the University District Streetfair where we ran into hsifyppah and vixyish and gfish and tereshkova2001 and mamishka and eventually later cow and ate too much fair food and walked around for hours and Anna and I gave hats back to the Hatterdashery guy for repairs and I ordered a special hat in size SUPER-GNORMOUS because I have a SUPER-GNORMOUS HEAD. And then Anna spotted a hat already made that fit, and grabbed it, and wouldn't give it to me even though it totally looks better on my head. (She's so mean.) So I got revenge by finding a very attractive skirt-and-sleeved-vest top that I'll wear over nothing a white slip or something and a nice red zippered hoodie sort of like my many-coloured one but very, very red.

We also found someone selling butter chicken and vindaloo sauces, so after the fair I stopped at the grocery on the way home and bought things to make butter chicken and garlic nan. The butter chicken came out very well, the nan came out only okay, but Erin gave me a nan recipe that she says works well and I'll try that next time.

And then I dozed for a bit and played with the slidey song that I don't have a name for yet either and did my daily recording and now it's clearly past time for bed.