From Tesla to Winter

John Winter, 67, curates the American Museum of Radio and Electricity located in Bellingham’s Old Town district. The Tesla Coil transfers electricity through an electromagnetic field, which is strong enough to power a fluorescent bulb. The airborne voltage produced by the coil is not powerful enough to kill, but can burn skin, Winter said.

Winter collected his first radio — a 1920s, battery-powered model — as a young man, and over the years, accumulated enough to open the museum with John Jenkins, also a collector of radios and elctronic equipment.

“Our goal is to stimulate an interest in sciences, physics and math,” Winter said.

Orange extract, water and plastic

Sarah Kindle, 19, shields herself from the early afternoon sun Friday, April 16 in front of Carver Gym. She grew up in a large Mexican family, and she was 8 years old when she first ate pig intestines. “I will never eat them again — ever,” Kindle said.

Roy Kennedy, 62, has been a vegetarian for 40 years. He once dilluted a bottle of 180 proof, or 90 percent alcohol, orange extract by pouring it into a plastic bottle of water. “The alcohol ate away the plastic and turned it all cloudy white,” Kennedy said. “Being the fucked up alcoholic I was, I drank it anyway.”

He said he was ill for a month after consuming the plastic-laced drink.

“It is the drugs that are the answer,” he said, “but those drugs are vitamins and

minerals.”

Riley, the violinist

Riley DeWeese, 6, plays the violin on the opening day of the

Bellingham Farmers Market Saturday. With two years of experience, DeWeese is no rookie to busking the streets. “A couple of weeks ago, my mom told me it was busking day soon, and I got really excited,” DeWeese said.