Hayley Chambers has been on the job as curator the Sitka Historical Museum for a couple of months. She's interested in starting a volunteer program for locals. Interim director Chris Todd announces that the Society has won a prestigious award from the American Association for State and Local History for its exhibit on last year's ANB/ANS Centennial.
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ADF&G's Davidson steps down as regional management coordinator. "Seussical the Musical": A News Story in Verse! Sitka falls to Anchorage in Wednesday's Little League championship series opener.
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We were lucky enough to have the very talented Breathe Owl Breathe perform live at the station this afternoon. If you missed the performance, you can hear it here now.
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Jazz singer Dee Daniels taught a workshop for vocalists this week. Tonight (7PM, Rasmuson Center, free) her students will perform. With Native Jazz Quartet bassist Christian Fabian. Daniels says jazz promotes an authentic technique -- there is no room for auto-tuning or other technology in the jazz method.
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As second year of program gets underway, Sitka Fellow Bes Young explores the Arts of Aging. Episcopal presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori visits Sitka, in path biologists Ricketts and Calvin. ADF&G to hold no additional king openers this summer.
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Bessie Young is a Sitka Fellow originally from New Jersey, who’s been studying for her Master’s Degree in Ireland. She’s been documenting dementia in elderly women since her undergraduate years. “If you are comfortable with a difficult topic, that’s an area you should really pursue and help people deal with. I deal with it myself through my artwork,” she says. Young will use her seven weeks in Sitka to continue work on her Master’s project. She plans to spend time in Sitka’s senior care facilities, getting to know the residents.
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Tully McLoughlin says this is a critical year for growth in the Sitka Fellows program. He introduces Fellow Bessie Young, a photographer and filmmaker exploring memory and aging.
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Assembly selects 10 administrator candidates for further consideration. City offers reward for arrest of Baranov statue vandal. Crystal Lake Hatchery loses 1,100 kings to warm water.
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A Southeast Alaska Native corporation and a conservation group are combining forces to try to spur sustainable regional development.
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W.T. McRae selected Seussical the Musical for this year's Musical Theater camp. He directs the show, which opens this Friday night (7PM Fri Jul 26, 2PM & 7PM Sat Jul 27, Sitka Performing Arts Center, $20/$15 students and seniors). With Megan Wright, who stars as The Cat in the Hat.
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