Museum walking tours of historic Eastsound
The Orcas Island Historical Museum is offering Walking Tours of Historic Eastsound on Wednesdays and Saturdays in October at 1 p.m.
The tours start and conclude at the museum. The easy one-and-a-half-hour walk is $5 per adult, complimentary for children accompanied by an adult and includes museum admission.
Identify mushroom “rainflowers”
The annual Mushroom Identification foray in Moran State Park, will be on Sunday, Oct. 19, rain or shine. “The underground mycelia are waiting to fruit and the rains have started!” says organizer Babs McCorison.
Those planning to go on the foray should meet at the picnic shelter on the highway by Cascade Lake at 11 a.m.
“We’ll keep going until around 3 p.m. Bring some wood for the fire, your lunch, a collecting basket and a mushroom identification guide if you have one. Wear field clothes. We’ll go for a walk and see what we find. Then we’ll look at the fungus back in the shelter with books, microscopes and identify over lunch and beyond. Able assistance will be offered by Robin Rodenberger and Philip and Amy Miller. We welcome questions and local mushrooms,” said McCorison.
A few Kit Scates’ “Easy Key to Gilled Mushrooms” will be available.
For questions, call McCorison at 376-2404.
“Last September” shot on Orcas
Exterior Films, a young filmmaking company located in Oregon, has just released “Last September,” which features Orcas as a location where two young men head to explore their friendship, following the death of one man’s mother.
The film is now making the rounds of film festivals.
Director and co-writers of “Last September,” Chapin Menningway and Tyson Balcomb, say the film cost $17,000 to make and is partly autobiographical. They had both attended Four Winds summer camp on Orcas Island.
For more information, go to www.exterior-films.com
Sing “Hallelujah”
Music from the well-loved “Messiah” by George Frederick Handel, will be sung with a chorus of island singers on Sunday, Dec. 7 in a Sing-a-Long Messiah.
The Island Sinfonia will be playing popular choruses and arias, including the “Hallelujah” chorus, from Handel’s masterpiece at the Orcas Center beginning at 3 p.m.
The performance will be limited to an hour. Everyone is invited to bring their Handel’s “Messiah” music and sing along. The concert is free and non-singers are welcome.
Soloists who would like to sing their favorite arias should contact Karen Blinn at 376-6579 or Jack Lynch at 468-4617.
