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book club reminder

Space is filling quickly for next week’s Chinatown tour — we are more than half filled up for both tours. Being the first time we are offering the same tour twice, this is fantastic news. Sign up now while there’s still space on our events page. As a reminder, the first ever Dill Pickle Book [...]

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recommended reading

In preparation for next month’s walking tour of Chinatown, Dale Davis (Pickler#30) is organizing the first ever Dill Pickle reading group. Up first, we’ll be taking on Dr. Marie Rose Wong’s superb Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon (University of Washington, 2004). From the publisher: Around the turn of the twentieth century, [...]

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thanks for packing the place!

Thanks all who packed the Pickle for NW PASSAGE. The series was a great success. In the coming days we’ll be posting documentation from last Thursday’s event. Also stay tuned for a booklet + audio CD documenting the music lecture series, due out in late August. In the meantime, we’re excited to announce Sweet Cakes, [...]

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