The Legend of Seafair by Jack Gordon from the 1954 “Seafair Press Book”The pageant that arises from the sea had its beginning five years ago when maritime and pleasure-boating leaders realized that the glories of the ancient Hellenic gods who once dwelt on cloud-capped Olympus have faded in men’s minds. Their gaze turned to snow-capped Mount Olympus, a peak in the Olympic Mountains on the peninsula west of Seattle.“There is the new Olympus,” they said, filled with civic pride. “There dwell the old gods in a new world. Most restive and bored is Neptune, King of the Seas, who must