Reminders | FAME celebrates 125 years, Century and Hangover flea markets, Cranksgiving

First African Methodist Episcopal Church celebrates a milestone this weekend with a celebration at its 14th and Pine home. Details from the Seattle Times here and more things to do this weekend on Capitol Hill below.

Seattle's oldest African-American church marks 125 years
When Margaret Hardin moved as a girl from New Orleans to Seattle 84 years ago, she lived with a local doctor's family for a few years and then moved into a YWCA in the Central Area.

There, a woman walked up to Hardin, who by then was 19 and working as a waitress, and said. "Come on, kid, I'm going to take you to church."

So began Hardin's nearly 80-year love affair with an institution that has embraced her and, over the decades, helped shape her life — Seattle's First African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).
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Century Ballroom's weekly flea market (Image: CHS)

Saturday, November 19

• Laura Weinstein, curator of South Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, speaks at the Seattle Asian Art Museum
• Weekly children's story time at Elliott Bay, 11:30a
• Eco-Fashion Seattle | Workshop Topic: TOYS at Ghost Gallery
• Home for the holidays tasting at EVS
• Saturday Family Concerts: The Harmonica Pocket at Town Hall
• Century Ballroom weekly flea market
• Scriptures in-store at Spin Cycle
• Ruby Room donation drive
• Cranksgiving starts in Cal Anderson Park
• Off Hill! Blogsgiving 4
• We Must Bleed at 35th North Skate Shop
• "Voices of The Revolution"  -- Occupy Seattle -- "Speakers, Poets, Singer/Song writers, Bands, and DJs" at Westlake

Sunday, November 20

• Flute concert at St. Joe's
• Weekly farmers market at Broadway and Pine, 11a-3p
• Hangover Flea Market at the Comet