Pike Place Market, its Historical and Social Context
Schedule: Wednesdays, October 7-28, 2009; 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Location: Top of the Market, 93 Pike St. Suite 307, Seattle, WA 98122
Reg. # 105288

Course Description
From its inception in 1907, The Pike Place Market has been the site of commercial, cultural, and social integration reflecting trends in the city and the nation. This course is a multi-media offering of the history and images of Seattle's Pike Place Market with an examination of current operations, governance and management, and includes a tour and tastings. Learn why the Market has become the guide for urban renovation schemes and understand why the Market reigns over all Seattle institutions as a self governing and revered icon.

This course has been developed by the Friends of the Market, an advocate for the Pike Place Market since 1964. It assists with preservation and stewardship of the Market district and surrounding downtown community, and conducts educational and preservation programs to promote the understanding and appreciation of Market history and cultural traditions.

Instructors

Paul Dunn
A resident of the Pike Place Market, Dunn worked in criminal justice administration and reform for decades, before directing the Pike Place Merchants Association and serving two terms on the Market Historical Commission. He writes the monthly column, Post Alley Passages for the Market News.

Alice Shorett
Shorett was commissioned by the city in the 1960's to write the history of the Market for the National Register. A decade later, she co-authored, People, Politics, and Produce, a Market history with Murray Morgan. She updated that history in Soul of the City in 2007.

Paul Dorpat
Dorpat has written the Now & Then pictorial feature of local history for the Seattle Times' Pacific Magazine for decades. He is a respected and original regional historian.

Jerry Thonn
Thonn served on the original Market Historical Commission and then for 16 years as a councilmember of the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA) while practicing law for forty years in Seattle.

Braiden Rex-Johnson
A freelance fiction and cookbook author of seven books, Rex-Johnson lives adjacent to the Market. She has written three Market cookbooks and her most recent work is Pacific Northwest Wining & Dining.