I wonder what theyre asking for rent up there.
I wonder what they're asking for rent up there? Ken Schulze / shutterstock.com

According to the Peninsula Daily News, resident of Port Angeles and "avid bowler," Donna M. Morris, trusted $9 million for the "design, construction and maintenance” of a performing arts facility in her hometown to the Peninsula College Foundation following her death in 2014. Last Friday, a living person named Dorothy Field stepped up and dropped $1.4 million to secure a 70,000-square-foot waterfront property for the new center. As of right now, aside from Port Angeles High School auditorium, there are zero performing arts centers in the area.

I asked Judge Brooke Taylor, Peninsula Foundation College board member and chair of the committee for the project, what sorts of performances the people of Port Angeles might look forward to.

"We are too early in the process for me to give you an intelligent response," he said. "The organizations required by the will to be consulted are the Port Angeles Symphony, The Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts, the Port Angeles Community Players, and the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center."

Confidential to rich people: Please keep doing this. Give arts organizers lots of money so that they can focus on programing art and not fundraising, setting up galas to woo people, writing grants, etc. As some drunk guy said to me last night: "You can't take it with you." Maybe he was quoting the title of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's famous play, or maybe he was just a little mad that I accidentally pocketed his lighter—it doesn't matter. He was right.