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Highlights of 2010
June
6/03, 04, 05, 06
As minstrel Mart
Taylor. Columbia Diggin's, Columbia SHP, Columbia, CA For event
information: State Park
Office 209-588-9128.
http://www.columbiacalifornia.com/diggins.html
6/14, 15, 16.
Seattle - Klondike documentary film
produced by Aperture Films of Los Angeles, CA. (Not yet released).
Played the parts of an 1898 Seattle gentleman and a member of the Denny
Party in 1852.
July
7/30. Fort Nisqually -
"MC'd" and performed a medley of Scottish folk
tunes for Friday at the Fort.
September
Performed as
Minstrel Mart Taylor in the City of Olympia, WA. Special living
history event by the Olympia Historical Society.
Played
Warren G Harding for the Tacoma Historical Society's Stadium High School
sesquicentennial event.
October
10/1, 2. Fort Nisqually Candle Light Tour.
10/3. Thurston County
Through the Decades - Tumwater Historical Society - Mart Taylor
performing pre-1850 music on banjo and guitar.
Port of Seattle Documentary Film - Vaun
Raymond production
Soon to be released on the Seattle Channel and King County TV, and will
be used in the Port's Timeline website.
I played the part of one of the Denny party in 1852.
10/29 & 10/30
Appeared as one of the story tellers for
Bonfires, Beaver Pelts and Bogeymen,
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA.
Open air traditional 19th century ghost story telling by
firelight.
November
11/6. Fort Nisqually Living History day - Arts of the Fur
Trade.
2009 Past Events and
Performances
January
1/25
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
As Jacques Portier, retired Nor'Wester, John will share French Songs of the
19th Century Northwest Fur Trade.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort
Nisqually for details at 253-591-5339.
February
2/22
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
Kumtux
Chinook? As Jacques Portier, retired Nor’Wester, John will cover aspects of
the Chinook Jargon and it role in the early Northwest.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort
Nisqually for details at 253-591-5339.
March
3/22
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
Kumtux
Chinook, weght? As Jacques Portier, retired Nor’Wester, John will hold a
workshop to assist participants wanting to learn some practical Chinook
Jargon in a living history context.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact
Fort Nisqually for details at 253-591-5339.
April
4/17
Inquiring Mind as John Quincy
Adams at Washington State Association of Parliamentarians, Embassy
Suites in Lynnwood. (7:30-8:30
PM,
20610 44th
Ave. W. Lynwood , WA)
4/21 Inq. Mind as Mart Taylor.
South Sound Dinner Club, Lacey, WA.
4/26
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
Story
telling. By flickering fire light at the end of the day or on a quiet
afternoon among friends with nothing more important to do, a good story
takes us back to our social beginnings. John will tell a couple of tales
and hold a workshop on this ageless tradition.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort Nisqually for
details at 253-591-5339.
May
5/5
at 1:00PM Inq. Mind as Minstrel Mart Taylor, Renton Retired Teachers,
Renton WA
5/12
at 6 p.m. Inq. Mind as Mart Taylor.
Daughters of the American Revolution - Bellevue, WA.
5/24
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
Story telling
(Part 2 of 2 parts). John will tell a tale or two and continue the workshop
on story telling.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort Nisqually for
details at 253-591-5339.
5/28, 29, 30, 31
As minstrel Mart
Taylor. Columbia Diggin's, Columbia SHP, Columbia, CA For event
information: State Park
Office 209-588-9128.
http://www.columbiacalifornia.com/diggins.html
June
6 /28
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
The banjo and the guitar in the 19th
Century. A combination of history and music from the 19th
Century.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort Nisqually for
details at 253-591-5339.
July
7/17 at 6:00, 6:20, 6:40, 7:00, 7:20
and 7:40. Playing Clinton Ferry during the ‘Walk with History Weekend’ the “Old Tacoma Cemetery Tour”,
John appears as one of many living history enactors portraying 1st person roles of significant personalities from early Tacoma history.
$8 per person for the general public and $4 per person for members of the
Tacoma Historical Society.
Tickets will go on sale June 11th and must be purchased from the Tacoma Historical Society.
7/26 at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
Bourgeois
and Voyageur; What they really looked like. A discussion of attire among
the North West Company and HBC in the 18th and 19th
Century. The focus will be on male fashion, but there will also be some
discussion of common female attire.
(Paid
admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort Nisqually for details
at 253-591-5339.
August
8/23 at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
75 years
in Point Defiance Park. John will cover the inspiring story of how Fort
Nisqually, in the midst of the Great Depression of the 20th
Century, ended up in Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park.
(Paid
admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort Nisqually for details
at 253-591-5339.
September
9/16 Randle Library. Inquiring Mind
presentation of John Quincy Adams
9/27
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
Newspapers and
journalism of the 19th Century. How much did the average Puget
Sound resident of the 1850s know about the world around him? As Mart
Taylor, a travelling American entertainer, John will discuss news events of
the 1850s and share authentic publications of the time period.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort
Nisqually for details at 253-591-5339.
October
10/10 or 10/17
Inq. Mind as
Minstrel Mart Taylor for City of Olympia, WA. Sesquicentennial
event.
10/23 & 10/24 Evening.
John will be appearing as one of the story tellers for
Bonfires, Beaver Pelts and Bogeymen,
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA.
Open air traditional 19th century ghost story telling by
firelight. Goes on rain or fair and is always well attended.
For additional event information,
please contact Fort Nisqually at
253-591-5339.
10/25
at 2:00PM. John Salicco
presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
Birch
Bark Canoes. A discussion of the “Pick-up Truck” of the fur trade. As Old
Nor'Wester Jacques Portier, John will discuss travelling the Voyageur
Highway by birch bark canoe in the 18th and 19th Century.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort
Nisqually for details at 253-591-5339.
November
11/15
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
As Congressman John Quincy Adams, John will discuss Eastern influences on
the development of Washington State focusing on the "Convention of 1818"
allowing for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country, the
present day States of Washington and Oregon.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort
Nisqually for details at 253-591-5339.
December
12/27
at 2:00PM. John Salicco presents,
There was a time in
History... at
Fort Nisqually Living
History Museum, Tacoma, WA .
Jour de L'an. Come join with Jacques Portier, Old Nor'Wester and
celebrate the day of the New Year. Songs, stories and the poetry of
William Henry Drumond.
(Paid admission to Fort Nisqually) Please contact Fort
Nisqually for details at 253-591-5339.
Fees for former Inquiring Mind programs are negotiable.
For booking information:
email
or call 206-497-0049
Write: 3607 Broadmoor Dr NE,
Tacoma, WA 98422 |
