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Dear Friends of Doe Bay, |
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| Lots of News First - A Star is Born! Our New General Manager Jami Mitchell
It is difficult to call Jami new in that she is perhaps the most familiar face of Doe Bay and has been for over five years. Shown here with her husband Fabrice, who is himself a beloved part of the Doe Bay community as a regular performer and host of "open mic" in the cafe on Thursday nights. Jami has been runnning the show behind the scenes for most of her five plus years with us. Please take an opportunity to meet Jami and congratulate her the next time you call or visit Doe Bay. In our next newsletter, Jami will announce our new Resident Managers who will move to the property just after Halloween. We are excited about the future as we continue to build something very unique in our island paradise. ******************************************* Upcoming Events Last year, during the "quiet seasons", it was a highlight for me to hear from so many Orcas Island residents (and guests from the mainland as well), that Doe Bay was the most ALIVE place in the San Juan Islands. We hope to continue that tradition with as many stimulating events as we can conjure. The only thing we need is for you to support the effort by attending. Please read the list below and put at least one of these on your calendar. Call and reserve now. (Remember, these events are in addition to open mic at the Doe Bay Cafe with beer, wine and pizza EVERY THURSDAY and MOVIE NIGHTS EVERY MONDAY.) ******************************************* October 8 Wildlife plays live at the Doe Bay Cafe This is Jonathan Hu's latest project and if you have ever seen him play at Doe Bay, you know it will be great.******************************************** BIG Week(end) at Doe Bay October 14 (and maybe the 10th or 11th too) Open Mic - Features Jake Hemming Clickk
here >>>>> Hint - This is where you saw him last! Click on the logo to check Jake out! Jake and Quinn will be our honeymooning guests all week, so watch for him playing whenever the opportunity arises. If it works out with his schedule, we will get Jake to do a few tunes in the Cafe on the 10th or 11th. ******************************************* October 15, 2010 The Fall Feast for Funhouse Doe Bay Cafe is pleased to host a fall fundraiser benefiting the Funhouse, one of our favorite local charities. All proceeds from the elegant prix fixe dinner will go towards this vital community youth center. To learn more or book your reservation, please email jami@doebay.com. Doe Bay is proud to support its local community! Abigael will be working her magic in the Doe Bay kitchen so don't miss this event. ******************************************* October 17, 2010 SPLAB WELCOMES MICHAEL McCLURE Since this is our first SPLAB event, I will give you the background. Last year we partnered with Artsmith to present the Monday night Salon Series at Doe Bay. Our friends at Artsmith will continue that tradition with regular performances in town and we will carry on at Doe Bay with SPLAB. We are featuring guest writers from around the country to read pieces of their work. The Cafe features its incredible gourmet, organic, locally-sourced menu on these special Sunday evenings throughout the fall/winter. Following the guest author, local writers will have an opportunity to read their own works each week in a Writer's Open Mic. All lovers of food, wine and words are welcome! Reading begins at 7:30 pm. Reserve a table for dinner by calling 360-376-8059. To find out more about SPLAB visit http://splab.org/. Michael McClure is a rock star of the literary world and you have the opportunity to meet him and experience his talent at Doe Bay. He is a poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist who initially gained fame as one of the five poets who read at the legendary San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. Author of 16 books of poetry, McClure has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Obie Award for Best Play, an NEA grant, the Alfred Jarry Award, and a Rockefeller grant for playwriting. His play The Beard provoked numerous censorship battles. In Los Angeles, the cast was arrested after each performance for fourteen nights in a row. Later, The Beard received two Obies in New York, and it has played a role in U.S. censorship and free speech battles since 1966 when it won its first lawsuit. McClure has worked extensively with Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek, and they have collaborated on several CD’s. Third Mind, a film of Michael and Ray's conversations and performances, premiered on the Sundance Channel. McClure's songs include "Mercedes Benz," popularized by Janis Joplin. ******************************************* October 18, 2010 Movie Night with Michael McClure We couldn't let Michael McClure spend a week on the property without engaging him in as many ways as possible. Monday night is movie night at Doe Bay! There will be full dinner service, half price bottles of wine, and free popcorn at showtime! Please call 360-376-8059 for movie information and reservations! Michael McClure, the featured author from Sunday nights SPLAB Literary Salon, will commentate his autobiographical documentary "Abstract Alchemist of Flesh" featuring cameos by Ray Manzarek, Dennis Hopper, and Allen Ginsberg. ******************************************* More Music Friday, October 22nd Origamighost 7:30 ******************************************* Friday, Oct 29th Alexander's Real Time Band 7:30
October 31st, 2010 Sam Hamill Comes to Doe Bay Reserve now (360) 376-8059 On October 31st SPLAB will be featuring Sam Hamill who is the author of more than forty books, including fifteen volumes of original poetry (most recently Measured by Stone and Almost Paradise: New & Selected Poems & Translations); four collections of literary essays, including A Poet’s Work and Avocations: On Poetry & Poets; and some of the most distinguished translations of ancient Chinese and Japanese classics of the last half-century. He co-founded, and for thirty-two years was editor at, Copper Canyon Press. He taught in prisons for fourteen years and has worked extensively with battered women and children. An outspoken political pacifist, in 2003, declining an invitation to the White House, he founded Poets Against War, compiling the largest single-theme poetry anthology in history. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Mellon Fund, and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He presently divides his time between his studio in Port Townsend, Washington, and Buenos Aires. ******************************************* To see other events for the rest of November and beyond, please go to the: ******************************************** Thanksgiving at Doe Bay The best way to describe Thanksgiving at Doe Bay is to tell you that you will feel like a pilgrim. The best way to show you is to include some photos from last year. The first is a shot of our guests arriving by foot ferry...
Next... the big feast... at the Doe Bay Cafe!
You will love spending Thanksgiving at Doe Bay. One of the things you will be thankful for is that you are at Doe Bay on Thanksgiving. PLEASE call to reserve now, as we will sell out. There will be two seatings for dinner and you will have the best weekend of the fall in the relaxing calm of Doe Bay. It is the one day that we serve poultry in the Doe Bay Cafe. We always serve the freshest vegetables and seafood but for Turkey day we serve fresh hot Turkey. Call to hear about the Thanksgiving Family Packages available. (360) 376-2291. ****************** There is a back-story to this. I know I will be criticized for including it here, but you pay dearly to subscribe to this newsletter and I think you deserve the whole truth. For over 20 years, I have not eaten pigs or birds or cows unless I killed them myself. About five years ago, missing turkey on Thanksgiving, I was persuaded to butcher an organic bird raised on our neighbor's farm. We had purchased Doe Bay just a year or two earlier and this seemed like the perfect place for the ritual. Surrounded by our (largely vegan) staff and family and guests, I went "mano a mano" against the helpless beast. I was relying on the advice of a Doe Bay employee who was about 60 and who had apparently smoked pot most of those years. He advised me and the crowd that, by scrambling the birds' brain, the bird would become docile and its spirit would fly away leaving only its body. I did so and he seemed to be right. It was a disturbing act, at best, but certainly part of the process of eating an animal whether we do it or engage others to do it on our behalf. My vegan friends actually were not quite approving, but seemed to appreciate my acknowledgment of the idea that, if you are willing to eat it, you should be willing to kill it. The bird was hanging and ready for removal of it's head. Suffice to say that all hell broke loose. Kids screamed and I wanted to. I plucked butchered, cleaned, cooked and ate the bird. It wasn't too good. Here are two photos and if you coax me I will dig up a video for the next newsletter. The bird got one hit in before being vanquished.
But ultimately the Turkey fought the law and the law won!
Don't worry, the photo above is a scene you will not see at Doe Bay again! ******************************************* The photo below is a scene I hope you will see at Doe Bay for years to come:
******************************************* I love writing these letters when I am up here at Doe Bay. I wrote most of this one sitting in the cafe on a Sunday morning. I had a scramble filled with fresh vegetables from the garden and a double tall non-fat latte. Life is good! Joe Post-script - Even many of our regular guests don't know about Retreat House so check it out by clicking here. It is one of the best places at Doe Bay because you can gather a group of 5 to 20 in a huge house next to the garden. So, we are offering a Retreat House special –30% discount off any new full week reservation in October, excluding holidays. Just mention this newsletter special when you check in.
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Doe Bay Fest the 13th! ---- All over but the memories |
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If you are one of the lucky lucky folks who attended Doe Bay Fest this year, you know that something unique happened here. I can't explain it; as John Sebastian said, "it's like tryin to tell a stranger about rock n' roll." If you have a couple hours, just go through the following links and you will have a small sense of what this was: 1.) Phil's
review in Sound on the Sound - Doe Bay Fest Virgin tells all. 24.) Sound
on the Sound's Flickr photos 37.) New - Meg Schaper's photos 38.) New Melissa Fenno's photos 39.) Hillary Harris' Unbelievable photos from Doe Bay Fest 40.) The 1st of The Doe Bay Sessions - The Maldives videos 41.) Deborah Malarek's Flickr's of Doe Bay Fest 42.) My favorite because it is local to the islands... The Sounder sums it up! 43.) Sharzad's cool Fest photos and great website. 44.) City Arts's cool video photo montage.... Music by the Fruit Bats. 45.) Video of Kimo, facing the Disaster at Doe Bay Fest 47.) Drew Grow's Amazing Performance as part of The Doe Bay Sessions 48.) Josh summarizes his Doe Bay experience in Sound on the Sound 49.) Kaylee Cole singing in the woods at Doe Bay Fest 50.) Fruit Bats perform on Meditation Point
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Our Doe Baby! When Finn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna jump for joy!
(Rumor - Finn has a db tattoo on his left shoulder) |
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Click the Map and See the Photos! |
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Thanks to Cameron, we now have beautiful and detailed photos of every place to stay at Doe Bay. Just click on this link to get to the map. Then click on any site and you will see the photos. |
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Oh to be a small girl in a big garden! |
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Ashley harvesting at Doe Bay |
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Where should we go for dinner? |
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Where do you go for dinner on your night off if you work at the world famous Doe Bay Cafe? It is not really an tough question. We know the food was harvested today and prepared with love. Plus, our executive Chef, Abigael Birrell loves her staff and always fixes a few special treats like the appetizer shown here; stuffed squash blossoms, tempura style. ******************************************* |
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How to get to Doe Bay |
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By Sea, By Land or By Air |
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Getting to Doe Bay can be half the fun. Consider the foot ferry from Island Express, directly to our beach. Call us for details. Another option is flying on Kenmore Air out of Seattle. The ferry
schedule includes fewer sailings in the Winter and Spring, but
they are almost never full, so come on up!
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If you read this far, you deserve something. Print out the last page, and bring it with you to the front desk when you check in and it is worth $50.00 toward your accommodations any time in October, 2010. This is not valid with other deals or discounts, but, unless you are Kay Taylor, it's not like you usually get paid to read, right? |
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Doe Bay Resort and Retreat is a unique alternative to the traditional destination resort. On over thirty-eight acres of pristine waterfront property, we have a variety of accommodations in a rustic, down-to-earth environment.
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