Washington: “Indian Summer” — Beat Happening

I moved to the Northwest to go to college in 1989. I was a musical rando–I loved Go-Go and R&B, Bob Marley and REM. I had tapes with Rites of Spring and The Replacements. but I didn’t really collect records yet other than The Cure and New Order. When I arrived in the dorms at the University of Oregon, I met the zeitgeist that would change my life: Allison Wolfe.
Allison was from Olympia, Washington and was starting college after a year abroad in Thailand. Even though I went to an