Tag: Events

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!

I have been given permission from Laresa from OC to post this opportunity for the bloggers. 

Aleutian WWII Visitor's Center. Photo courtesy of OC.
Aleutian WWII Visitor's Center. Photo courtesy of OC.

Documentary Night at the WWII Center

For a very small membership fee of $10.00, you can join other members at the Aleutian WWII Visitor’s Center for documentary night every Monday night, or according to the posted schedule.  Your $10.00 gets you a six-month membership!  (I haven’t seen a better deal than that forever.)  The documentaries are shown in the theater located at the Center.  Nice comfy chairs.  Great ambiance.  Showtime is at 7:30 PM, unless otherwise noted on the schedule.  Any questions about the memberships, films, or recommendations for future screenings,  please feel free to call Laresa  at 581-1276.

The schedule:

Feb. 2  Iraq For Sale: the War Profiteers by Robert Greenwald    7:30 pm
Feb. 23  Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War By Robert Greenwald   7:30 pm
March 9    Guns, Germs, and Steel Part 1 National Geographic, From Pulitzer-prize Winning Book by Jared Diamond  7:30 pm
March 10   Guns, Germs, and Steel Part 2  7:30 pm
 March 23   DownFall  (theatrical of Hitler’s final hours) by Bernd Eichinger  6:30 pm 
 April 6   The Business of Being Born  By Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein  7:30 pm
 April 20  Why We fight  7:30 pm

Hope to see you all there!

A food blogger, I’m not.

So I’m getting ready for the 2nd Annual Chocolate Extravaganza at the Museum of the Aleutians, tonight, beginning at 7 PM.  I still have 8  tickets left.  If you want one I will hold it at the door for you.  Let me know.

I keep forgetting to take pictures of my concoctions as I am preparing them.  I think of the camera as I am putting the finished product into a container.    I love food blogs (actually I am addicted to cookbooks if you really want to know the truth) and I really like to see the process that people go through when they blog about making a recipe.  Not doing to good on that front.

Tonight I am bringing three types of hand-dipped chocolates to donate to the Museum.  Some of them will be put on the table to eat immediately, but I would imagine that most of them will be for the Museum to sell to raise funds.   Included will be Sea Salt Caramels, Cherry Cordials, and Grand Marnier Truffles.   Oh,  maybe candied orange peels dipped in chocolate, if I have time to dip them.

Grand Marnier truffles drying, prior to enrobing and decorating.
Grand Marnier truffles drying, prior to enrobing and decorating.

I always want my stuff to be fresh, so it seems I am always down to the wire timewise.  I will definitely have to work on that issue.

If I was a real food blogger, I would have shown you the ingredients in the pot on the stove, the mixture bubbling its way to 257 degrees, the cut pieces of caramel, the almost always messy job of dipping, and definitely, the sea salt sprinkle at the end.  But alas…

The caramel setting up.
The caramel setting up.
Sea salt caramels in the box and ready to go.
Sea salt caramels in the box and ready to go.

So I have got to get going.  I know that Annabelle Wilt, Linda Ellsworth, AB Rankin, Denise Rankin, Debra Mack, Kristine King, Shawn Dickson, Laresa Syverson, Zoya Johnson, Bai Kirkland and her friend Leah, and  Chris and Wendy Hladick are bringing something chocolate-y.  Actually, Laresa is bring her homemade gingerale to help clear the palate.   I know there are others out there making something delicious.  Hope to see you all there.

tell your story. pass it on.

Kristine setting up for the StoryCorps Kick-off.
Kristine setting up for the StoryCorps Kick-off.

Since 2003, more than 35,000 everday people have shared life stories with family and friends in StoryCorps booths across the nation.  With a generous donation from an anonymous source, the Alaska Initiative has  made it possible for you to participate in one of the largest oral history projects undertaken.  The generous donor chose Unalaska, Dillingham, Nome, and Barrow to host facilitators.  Fairbanks and Juneau will also be documented by the facilitators from the 4 towns.

Meet your Unalaska facilitators.

Kristine King and Sharon Svarny-Livingston.
Kristine King and Sharon Svarny-Livingston.

This is a throwdown to all Unalaska bloggers and blog followers to pick up that phone and call Kristine at 359-8016 to schedule an appointment for your story.  The Real Unalaska has already conversed with her sister.  And word on the street is that she is bringing her cousin in on Saturday!

What happens at StoryCorps,  you ask?  alena-paperworklaresa-paperworkYou come in with a friend or family member.  You fill out paperwork so that we can create a great database for your story.  You have a 40 minute conversation with your partner about whatever you want to talk about.  We record.

Sharon checks the mics before recording Sam & Caleb.
Sharon checks the mics before recording Sam & Caleb.

We ask you to sign a release so your story can be archived at the Library of Congress, the University of Alaska, and also locally, both at KUCB, and either the Library or the Museum;  the release also allows NPR, APRN, and KUCB to edit the recordings for short stories to air.  We take your picture to archive with the CD.  We present you with a professional recording of your story.  It takes about an hour.zoya-and-sharon

Alena and Laresa talked about their art and growing up in Unalaska.  Sam talked to his son-in-law, Caleb, about being a veteran of 3 wars.  And although Zoya was totally tricked into coming in for a conversation with me, she had a great time and is very glad to have participated because she has something tangible to give to her children that tells them, perhaps, some things about her that they haven’t talked about.

tell your story.  pass it on.  it’s free!