The “First Thursday” presentation for May is “Ripe for the Telling: Surprising Stories of Washington’s Fruit.” The talk will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main St.
Anthropologist Julia Harrison will discuss how perishable products preserve historic events and reflect the changing relationship to the natural world.
Admission is free, thanks to support from Humanities Washington.
Harrison has researched sweet food as an anthropologist since 2004. She has created a “Sweet Travel” blog, had her work published in Edible Seattle and Wasabi Magazine, and in 2011, she launched the SweetMap website to preserve the stories behind the sweets industry.
In 2013 she created an exhibition for Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience that explored sweet treats from Asia.
For more information and questions, go to info@cchmuseum.org or call 360-993-5679.
