Aurora Art Mural Project Join your neighbors to meet the artists who have been hired to create 2 art murals on Aurora. Aurora mural locations include empty storefront windows and/or sides of buildings. The first project site is 7615 Aurora Avenue N. The artists hired are from Seattle Mural Art. John Osgood, Zachary Bohnenkamp & Kevin “Sensei23″ Sullivan are known most recently for their work creating an art mural for the safety wall next to the Greenwood businesses destroyed by arson. Join Sustainable Green Lake, Greenwood Aurora Involved Neighbors (GAIN) and Seattle Department of Transportation to meet the artists and…
December 2009
December 28, 2009 at 4:02PM
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Green Lake Ben & Jerry's reopens March 1, 2010
…according to a hand-written sign on the door. Had Ben and Jerry attended the September Friends of Green Lake meeting, they would have learned that people eat more ice cream in the winter. And judging from the crowd in Baskin-Robbins during the Pathway of Lights, the water samples don’t lie. Don’t worry, it’s just a seasonal closure and we can all try the new hot floats (hot milk, not hot coffee, btw) March 1st: Ben & Jerry’s Green Lake Scoop Shop (7900 E Green Lake Dr N, Ste 104). Update, January 18th, 2010: Just got word that the new reopening…
December 27, 2009 at 10:30PM
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Moonshine found at Green Lake home … 86 years ago today
Thanks to Casey for the heads-up on this gem from HistoryLink.org: Sheriff’s deputies raid Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood and find moonshine on December 27, 1923. On December 27, 1923, during Prohibition, a search warrant is issued to King County Sheriff’s Department to search 8023 14th Avenue NE in Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood. Sheriff’s deputies find one 10-gallon still used to manufacture moonshine (whiskey), 12 gallons of moonshine, and 18 quarts of beer. [ ... ] 8023 14th Ave NE today – we would consider this area to be Maple Leaf, but maybe before I-5 was constructed, the “Green Lake” neighborhood…
