Fort Worden State Park

Fort Worden Photos

Fort Worden State Park is widely regarded as the 'crown jewel' of the Washington state park system. Along with the rich slate of cultural activities that take place here, it is simply a place of stunning beauty and intriguing history. Over one million visitors come to the Fort each year...

...and they take photos.

We've just created a "badge" on the right hand side of the page that collects all photos on the popular photo sharing site Flickr that have been labeled (or 'tagged') "Fort Worden." By clicking on that badge, you can see what everyone else sees when they come to this special place.

Enjoy...and post your own photos!

David Lindley to Perform at the Wheeler

Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, known internationally for his work with Jackson Browne, and for leading  his own band El Rayo-X, will perform a solo concert at the Wheeler Theatre in Port Townsend at 7:30 on Friday evening, Feb. 8.  This concert, presented by UpWest Arts and Centrum, marks Lindley's first appearance on the Olympic Peninsula in four years.

Lindley, who has long championed the concept of world music, performs in a style that brings new meaning to the word "eclectic."  The David Lindley electro-acoustic performance effortlessly combines American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African, Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy, and Turkish musical sources.  Lindley incorporates an incredible array of stringed instruments including the Kona and the Weissborn Hawaiian lap steel guitar,  the Turkish saz and chumbus, as well as the Middle Eastern oud and the Irish bouzouki.  The eye-poppingly clad "Mr. Dave"'s uncanny vocal mimicry and humor make his on-stage banter a highlight of every show.

David Lindley grew up in Southern California, first taking up the banjo as a teenager, and subsequently winning the annual Topanga Canyon Banjo and Fiddle Contest five times as he explored the American folk music tradition.  Between 1967 and 1971 Lindley founded and led what must now be seen as the first world music rock band, The Kaleidoscope.  In 1971, Mr.
Dave joined forces with Jackson Browne, serving as Jackson's most significant musical co-conspirator until 1981.  In 1979, Lindley began working with old friend Ry Cooder on Bop Till You Drop and on the Long Riders soundtrack.  Their musical collaboration lasts to this day, and has spawned many recording projects and several world tours as an acoustic duo.

In 1981, Lindley created his own remarkable band, El Rayo-X, which integrated American roots music and world beat with a heavy reggae influence.  El Rayo-X toured the world for the next eight years.  And throughout his long and distinguished career, Lindley has been one of Hollywood's most in demand session musicians, lending his skills to the recorded works of Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby and Nash, Warren Zevon, and many others.

Lindley will perform one show only at 7:30 pm. Tickets are on sale at the Centrum ticket office (385-3102 x114), at the P.T. Food Co-op, at Quimper Sound Music in P.T., and online at centrum.org.

January 11-13 Art Installation at Fort Worden

Originally artists Sean Edwards, Jim Hobbs, Maria Glyka, Lisa Peachey, Ellie Reid, and Daniel Whibley were drawn together because of their overlapping interest in working with space, place, and site. Be it pragmatic and rational, poetic and futile, or historic, and cultural, they each use their artistic practices to investigate how they relate to, and experience these terms.

For their residency at Centrum, they have created new, individual works, which are either inspired by, or are incorporated into the specific location and architecture at Fort Worden and the surrounding area.

Their works will be shown in Batteries Quarles and Randol, situated along the main gun line, as well as in their studio—Building 205 (upstairs). Quarles and Randol are the bunkers up past Memory's Vault. The installation will be open from 11am-5pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You can access this area through the gate near Copper Canyon Press and bear to the right at the first opportunity. We'll have signs to get you to the gate.

ADA Volunteers will be on hand Saturday from 3-4 pm to guide installation viewers.

There will also be artists in studio in Building 205 on Saturday from 3-5pm to show work in an Open Studio. They will discuss—through dialogue and through the works themselves—how they deal with and are affected by the notions of space, place, and site.

ON THE NORTHERN FRONT OF CLIMATE CHANGE - WHAT’S NEXT

Annual Meeting February 9
Kicks off 2008 Lecture Series

Please join us for the PTMSC’s annual meeting at 4 pm in Fort Worden’s Bldg 204 located next to the Commons.  PTMSC Director Anne Murphy, will briefly present an organizational perspective and then turn the floor over to Charles Wohlforth, author of The Whale and the Supercomputer, a celebrated 2004 book about climate change in the Arctic. Wohlforth's book has been described as an adventure story that interweaves accounts of native whalers and scientific researchers working and sharing experiences in Barrow, Alaska, at the very edge of climate change.   Admission: Free/ members, $7/non-members.

Beneath the Antartic Ice

Pema Kitaeff
March 22, 11 AM, Natural History Exhibit

In an illustrated lecture, Pema Kitaeff will share her recent research experiences diving under more than 7 feet of Antarctic ice.  For five weeks in the fall of 2007, she was part of a team conducting research on nudibranch egg masses and exploring the subtidal marine communities of the far north.  Pema’s experiences included encounters with Friendly, a Weddell seal who shared her diving hole, pycnogonids (sea spiders) who became subjects of the team’s experiments, brilliantly colored soft corals, and many other marine organisms.Admission: $5/members; $7/non-member