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David Varnau, “Joie de Vivre,” 2016 Percival Plinth Project winner. The artist said of his sculpture, “To me, it captures those moments in our own lives where our senses are heightened and we feel very alive.”
The Mosquito Fleet was the name given to the steamboats that served Puget Sound’s shipping and transit needs during the later 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The name, so the story goes, came from a fellow in an office overlooking Elliot Bay and remarking as he observed all the boat activity that it looked like a “swarm of mosquitoes.” In the early 1850's, as the settler population grew, ancillary businesses developed; stores, brickyards, boat builders, dry docks, hotels and services for summer visitors. Since there were only trails in this land, heavily forested to the water’s edge, the population was supported by the steamboats, collectively called the Mosquito Fleet, that used the Puget Sound as a watery freeway to move mail, products and passengers.