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The Seattle Public Library is pleased to present its new Alaska-Yukon-Pacific-Exposition Digital Collection.
On Monday, October 28, 2008, the Nordic Spirit was released from the shed at the Nordic Heritage Museum where she has been housed for the past 28 years.
A late 18th- or early 19th-century fishing boat from the northern fjords of Norway, the Nordic Spirit was given to Seattle’s Nordic Heritage Museum by Volvo-Penta of America in 1980, after serving as an outreach tool for the Swedish company. In the early 1960’s Volvo re-imagined and outfitted the vessel with Viking-style embellishments.
The Pacific Northwest Historians Guild has announced their 24th annual conference, to be held in Seattle on March 9, 2009. This conference will explore all aspects of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition -- a topic that's near and dear to our hearts, so you can count on us being there. For more information, contact Trish Hackett Nicola, Program Chair, at PNWHGConference@gmail.com or by phone at (206) 284-5232.
“Seattle and Alaska are economically bound at the hip, and no one in Seattle seems to know it,” says Dave Gering, head of Seattle’s Manufacturing Industrial Council (MIC). Indeed, in 2004, MIC’s Seattle Industry magazine documented $4 billion in Alaska trade passing through the Puget Sound region in a single year.
Seattle's Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) has launched a community-wide research project, Discovering A-Y-P, to explore our region's cultural identity through the history of the fair. Register Now!
On Memorial Day next year, Folklife will officially kick-off a summer-long Centennial celebration. Held almost exactly 100 years from the opening of the original A-Y-P, it will feature performances, films, ephemera and more.
Partners
Partnering for A-Y-P Centennial Success
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Centennial Celebration is a project of the City of Seattle's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and 4Culture, King County's Cultural Services Agency, in collaboration with dozens of organizations and individuals around the region.
If you are or your organization is working on projects for the 2009 Centennial Celebration, HistoryLink and 4Culture have put together a community organizing website (aype.org) where you can collaborate, share information, request help and learn about the progress of A-Y-P-related projects.
Use the A-Y-P Centennial logo in your press releases, websites and promotional materials to help us cross promote and spead awareness about Centennial Celebration programming.
→ CLICK HERE FOR GUIDELINES AND LOGO FILES.
