PORT TOWNSEND — Sherry Lou MacGregor, Llyn De Danaan and Karen Polinsky are the featured guests for this evening’s Northwind Reading Series at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.
The theme of tonight’s edition is Women Writers on the Coast Salish Past.
The reading will begin at 7 p.m.
The suggested donation for the readings is $3 to $5, with all proceeds benefitting the Northwind Arts Center — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that sponsors visual, musical and literary art events and education on the Olympic Peninsula.
MacGregor
A member of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, MacGregor is a regular participant in Tribal Canoe Journeys — an annual event in which tribal members of the Pacific Northwest travel together on a sequence of canoe journeys through area waterways to celebrate their heritage.
MacGregor’s experiences and observations on these journeys have inspired her to document the history of Pacific Northwest coast Indian canoe cultures.
She is writing a book on this subject: Coast Salish Canoe Cultures Past and Present.
De Danaan
De Danaan is an anthropologist and author.
For the past 15 years, she has studied and written about the history of the Japanese American, Native American and European Americans of 19th and early 20th century Oyster Bay, an inlet in southern Puget Sound.
Her 2013 book, Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay, is based upon that research.
Polinsky
Polinsky is a high school English teacher and writer from Bainbridge Island.
Twenty years ago, she drove to the Pacific Northwest from Boston with her three children in a beat-up Toyota station wagon.
Her fascination with 19th century S’Klallam historian, Mary Ann Lambert, eventually turned into a revisionist-history coming-of-age novel, Dungeness.
For more information, visit www.northwindarts.org or call Bill Mawhinney at 360-302-1159.
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