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MOHAI's Discovering A-Y-P begins this fall

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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!

For this project, the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) is building upon its strengths of one of its core programs, Nearby History. Discovering A-Y-P will teach you how to research historical evidence connected with the A-Y-P and help you share your research with the community.

You may be curious about how the fair affected Seattle’s early urbanization and transportation systems or how it influenced the women’s suffrage movement. Perhaps you want to uncover the story surrounding an A-Y-P keepsake or delve into shocking accounts from behind the scenes at the fair. If so, we invite you to join researchers of all ages and backgrounds in a series of two-hour workshops led by MOHAI experts and offered at various public libraries throughout Seattle and King County beginning in the fall of 2008.

Participation in Discovering A-Y-P is completely free and open to all. Workshop registration opens in September 2008. Dates, times and locations will be announced in August 2008. For more information, contact Helen Divjak helen.divjak@seattltehistory.org or 206.324.1126, ext.30, or Lorraine McConaghy lorraine.mcconaghy@seattlehistory.org or 206.324.1685, ext. 23.

Partners

  • Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and 4Culture

    Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and 4Culture

    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.