Episodes

Episode 1. Meet me in Seattle: Music at the AYP


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Aired on KUOW 94.9 FM:
Friday, May 29th, 2:09 p.m.
Saturday, May 30th, 1:06 p.m

What’s a party without music? Although neither amplified nor recorded music was readily available in 1909, the grounds were filled with music from morning until night. Fairgoers were serenaded by Dixieland and brass bands, the newly formed Seattle Symphony, and groups performing Hawaiian, German, Scandinavian, and other music.

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Episode 2. Souvenirs of the AYP


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Aired on KUOW 94.9 FM:
Friday, August 14th, 2:15 p.m.
Saturday, August 15th, 12:06 p.m

While the people who attended the fair are gone, they've left behind some unusual souvenirs that keep alive some special memories. In the second installment of the AYP Centennial Radio Project, Harriet Baskas brings us the story of two dresses, a table and several other treasured AYP souvenirs.

Includes excerpt from Original Music of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, a locally produced CD by Larry Blackstock.


Hilda Heitmann's "storybook" AYP dress and Heitmann's daughters,
Beatrice Heitmann Nowgrowsk iand Katherine Heitmann Bush.
Photo by Kathleen Knies, courtesy of MOHAI.


Miss Liberty dress worn by Edna Morrison
at AYP New England Day, September 11, 1909
Photo courtesy Museum of History & Industry

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Episode 3. Legacies of the AYP


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Aired on KUOW 94.9 FM:
Thursday, October 29, 2:06 p.m.

The AYP brought pineapple, the Hawaiian steel guitar and the country's first transcontinental car race to Seattle.  It also brought pride of place to a rough and tumble town while presenting mixed messages about some indigenous and ethnic groups in the community. This episode features music performed by Swil Kanim and Greg Moore.


Entrance to the Igorrote Village, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
Photograph by Frank H. Nowell, courtesy Special Collections Division,
University of Washington Libraries,neg. no. Nowell 1557.  
On view in A-Y-P: Indigenous Voices Reply, through November 29, 2009, Burke Museum, Seattle.


Swil Kanim, photo courtesy Storms PhotoGraphic.
See Swil Kanim and others in concert on November 20, 2009.


Chief Seattle sheet music and AYP souvenir playing cards. Images courtesy the Burke Museum.

Contact: Please send any comments or questions about this project or Web site to jsp@jackstraw.org. Thank you!