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PENINSULA WOMAN: Sara Mall Johani unveils new gallery on Port Townsend Studio Tour
CHIMACUM -- Sara Mall Johani and her husband, Tom Jay, make their home in the deepest woods, so when you visit -- as art lovers may soon -- you feel like you're peeking into a secret lair.
Creatures of forest and river greet you, naturally. Jay's enormous plaster salmon rises out of the ground outside the shop, and inside, a "Soul Salmon," big as a shark, stands near the door of yet another secluded space: the Lateral Line Gallery.
Dedication: The statue of Harvey Manning is at the Issaquah Alps Trails Clubhouse
Reportedly, a girl once mistook Manning for a grizzly bear as he was backpacking.
Harvey Manning statue
Dedication: The statue of Harvey Manning is at the Issaquah Alps Trails Clubhouse, 110 S.E. Bush St., Issaquah, and will be dedicated in a public ceremony at 2 p.m. next Sunday, Sept. 20.
Statue honors conservationist Harvey Manning
By Katherine Long
Seattle Times Eastside reporter
Dave Kappler admits that if Harvey Manning were still alive, he might have argued against spending $15,000 in Issaquah Alps Trails Club money to commission a life-size statue in his own honor.
Larger than life: Statue of Cascades icon takes shape in Chimacum
By Jennifer Jackson
Peninsula Daily News
CHIMACUM -- In life, Harvey Manning was a giant who single-handedly took on the challenge of preserving wilderness in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
In Sara Mall Johani's studio in the wooded hills above Chimacum, Manning is also larger than life.
Johani and her husband, Tom Jay, owners of the Lateral Line Gallery and Studio on Van Trojen Road, are creating a statue of Manning, whose passionate advocacy for wilderness helped create the North Cascades National Park, Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area and Cougar Mountain Regional Park.