Aug 3, 2019 | Past Notes, Theater
Shakespeare’s The Tempest Storms into Olympia’s Port Plaza...
Aug 1, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Theater
I’m a theater producer as well as a novelist and playwright. Many years ago, when I first moved to Olympia, Washington I saw a beautiful stage beside the waters of the Puget Sound, and felt that the stage needed a great stage production of William...
Aug 1, 2019 | Past Notes, Theater
Located on historic and picturesque Budd Inlet in South Puget Sound, Olympia’s Port Plaza is a unique outdoor venue on the Puget Sound. Our performances will be next to salt water, with the sound of seagulls and boats nearby. Our closing weekend will include tall...
Jul 22, 2019 | Current Ned Note, On Books, On Writing, Past Notes
I had the pleasure of getting a preview of Katie Grindeland’s debut novel The Gifts We Keep, published by the student cooperative at Ooligan Press. Grindeland’s book was the winner of the 2016 Multnomah County Library Writers Project, and richly deserved...
Jul 15, 2019 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
A fascinating history of the Space Shuttle Development, originally published by Alan Tatourian. June 18, 2019 · by Alan Tatourian Links to the lectures: Origins of the Space Shuttle or The Making of a new Program Development of the Space Shuttle Introduction by Jeff...
Jul 8, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
by Nicholas Parker, for the New York Public Library Any successful author will tell you that before they hit the literary bigtime, they had to do a whole lot of hustling to support their writing habit. On July 5, 1880, playwright George Bernard Shaw was able to quit...
