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Friday, October 21 | Georgetown Haunted History Tour: Tour guides lead you through the dark, foggy alleys of the neighborhood of Georgetown, telling haunted and historic tales from the area once known as the “cesspool of Seattle.” Throughout the walk, learn of the period in which Seattle was still a very young city and Georgetown was the playground for the rich and poor. Hear tales of gambling, booze, temperance and the roles they played in many of stories of well-known Seattle ghosts. The entire tour is comprised of local actors and/or historians who are already enchanted with the lure of Seattle’s oldest neighborhood’s history.
Friday, October 21 | Pedal-Driven: In the pristine forests above Leavenworth, Washington, there exists a world of hidden trailheads and clandestine trails. Here a sect of outdoor enthusiasts, extreme mountain bikers called freeriders, have gone underground. They are the skate punks of the forest, unwelcome and under pressure to leave. The locations of their trails are carefully guarded secrets and the riders who ride them keep constant vigil, on the lookout for US Forest Service rangers.But they won’t leave. Each time one of their trails or jumps is destroyed they sneak back in and rebuild, believing that they have a right to ride through these landscapes. And now, in an effort to combat the problem, local district rangers have been given heightened authority to put any freeriders caught on undesignated trails directly into jail. The documentary Pedal-Driven will take you behind both sides of this confrontation riding with the freeriders and chasing them down with the rangers in an exploration of issues increasingly important to all Americans.
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