Holiday

A Community that Cooks Together, Eats Together

Sustainable Wallingford's Rachel Duboff invites us all to the Wallingford Community Kitchen Holiday Celebration at the Good Shepherd Center, Friday, November 19th from 5:30-9pm. Rachel's announcement says: "We will be making a communal soup and baking/decorating cookies; we cook as a community and then enjoy the bounties of our labor by sitting down to share a meal. This event is a little different, we ask that you bring an ingredient for the soup pot, along with a dish to share with…

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July 4: The View From Up Here

Traffic along Wallingford Avenue, above 40th Street, began to build by 11:00 a.m.   As I mowed my lawn, I marveled over the families that hauled their blankets, coolers, chairs, strollers, and kids 8 blocks down the hill.  By 3:00 p.m. the rain pretty much put the kibosh on my yard work, and the steady stream of people tapered down to a trickle.  But around 6:00 p.m., the thickening crowd resumed their pilgrimage to Lake Union. During a dinner party at my…

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Family Fourth Road Closures

It can sure be a blast to live in Lower Wallingford on the Fourth of July.  It can also be a serious pain in the ass if you're trying to move through the lower 'hood by car.   We visited the Family Fourth website for traffic info, and here's what we came up with based on this year's website & last year's instructions from the city. Beginning at noon on Sunday, July 4th, areas north of Gas Work Park will be restricted…

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The Family 4th of July at Gas Works is On!

Every Fourth of July—around 4:00 p.m. or so—I watch as scores of drivers swoop in for one of the precious few remaining parking spaces on my street. As the hours pass, the scene changes from motorists to pedestrians, who make their way down Wallingford Avenue in a slow and steady stream. They’ve got quite a few blocks to go before they hit Gas Works Park, but this stretch of Wallingford becomes a giant block party in and of itself. The street…

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Celebrate Your Mamas!

Wallingford is bustling with mothers - young and old, hip or crunchy, working at home or in the office - all of whom deserve to be celebrated on Mother's Day (and everyday). Mother's Day is celebrated all around the world. Here, in the U.S., it's the second Sunday in May. In the late 1800's, there were several attempts to establish the holiday, but momentum didn't catch on until the efforts of Anna Jarvis. Wanting to honor her deceased mother's dream of making a…

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Wallingford Easter Roundup

My mom's birthday is Easter Sunday -- at least that's what she's been saying since she was a kid.  She's wrong, but what the heck.  She's the kind of woman who appreciates flowers, dresses, Easter bonnets, and colorful baskets full of trinkets and bunny shaped chocolates.  So we'll give it to her.  Her birthday is on Easter.  Every year. And if she were in Wallingford this weekend, here are some of the Easter events she'd get to choose from.  Most are on Saturday rather…

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Go Down, Moses

If you read last year's "Good Pesach!" post, you know how we feel about Passover: a truly bad-ass Jewish Holiday. The God of the Old Testament rains His wrath on those who enslaved His people, plagues fire from His fingertips, blood flows in the rivers, frogs pour from heaven, boils erupt on the skin of the oppressors, an avenging angel sweeps across the land in the dark of night, the very earth rises from the bottom of the sea to carry…

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