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"Meet Me At The Fair" Exploring the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Come celebrate the 2009 centennial of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition with historians, educators and archivists. Innovations in health care, industry, transportation, art, architecture and infrastructure highlighted at the A-Y-P showcased Seattle as the great American gateway to the Pacific and to the future.
EVENING RECEPTION, Friday, March 6th, 6 - 7:30 pm with wine and cheese and a special tour of the Frank Nowell photography exhibit hosted by Nicolette Bromberg, U.of W. Libraries Special Collections, Visual Materials Curator and Carolyn Marr, MOHAI Librarian and exhibit curator.
CONFERENCE: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
8-8:30a.m. Registration
8:30-8:45 Convene
8:45-9:15 Plenary speaker: Dr. Michael J. Herschensohn
Program Manager for the City of Seattle A-Y-
P Celebration will give us an overview of
the significance of the events to take place
at the Celebration
9:15-9:30a.m Break
9:30-11:05a.m. SESSION 1, TRACK A "Planning and Design"
Moderator: Jeffrey Ochsner
Joan Hockaday, "The Olmsted Legacy Comes West"
Thaisa Way, "A-Y-P as Public Place: Art and Nature for
Seattle Parks"
Kathy Mendelson, "From Wildernessto Wonderland: Plants and
Gardens at the A-Y-P
Jeffrey Ochsner, "Geometry and Geology: Rainier Vista from
the A-Y-P to the UW"
SESSION 1, TRACK B 9:30-11:05am: "Seattle Meets the World"
Moderator: Shirley Yee,
Jeffer Daykin "Japan as a Modern World Power at the A-Y-P"
David A. Rash "The A-Y-P and Nihomachi"
Luci Baker Johnson & Barbara Sullivan "Scandinavians at the
A-Y-P"
Chuimei Ho & Bennet Bronson "The Dragon at the A-Y-P"
11:05-11:20 Break
11:20am-12:30pm: SESSION 2, TRACK 1 "Promoting the Pacific
Northwest"
Moderator: Bruce Jones
Eleanor Letterman, "Timber, Gold and Growth: Industry and
Provincialism at A-Y-P"
Melinda Van Wingen, "Snohomish County at the A-Y-P"
Erik Smith, "Hype, Hoopla and Public Relations: The Selling
of the A-Y-P"
11:20 a.m. - 12:30p.m. SESSION 2, TRACK B "Native Presence"
Ana Novokovic, "Modernity and Tradition: Portrayals of the
Native Americans at the A-Y-P"
Jayme Yahr, "Down the Pike: Native Americans and Snapshots
of the A-Y-P"
Jon Olivera, "Seattle at the Threshold of Empire: Cultures
of Design and Display at the A-Y-P"
LUNCH 12:30-1:50: Luncheon speakers: Alan Stein & Paula
Becker, HistoryLink staff historians will discuss
their upcoming book on the A-Y-P and and History-
Link A-Y-P slideshow
1:50-3:00p.m. SESSION 3, TRACK A: "Buildings, Places,
Engineering" Moderator: Jeffrey Ochsner
Kathryn Rogers Merlino, "Classicizing the Wilderness:
The Forestry Building at the A-Y-P"
Manish Chalana, "Where Gaiety is the Reigning Deity":
The Pay Streak at the A-Y-P"
Tyler S. Sprague, "Lighted Fair is Magic Landscape:
The A-Y-P at Night"
1:50-3:00pm SESSION 3, TRACK B:"Women at the Fair:
Moderator: Karen Blair
Michelle Dent, "Celebrating 200 years: Mapping Women's Work
at the A-Y-P"
Shanna Stevenson, Women's History Consortium, Suffragists
on Mt. Rainier: Dr. Cora Smith Eaton and the
A-Y-P climb of 1909"
Susan Boyle & Sonja Sokol Furesz, "Cunningham Hall- The
Past and Futures of the A-Y-P Women's Building"
3:00-3:10pm BREAK
3:10-4:00pm SESSION 4, TRACK A "Women Make Their Mark"
Moderator: Karen Blair
Phyllis Franklin, "The Long Journey West: The St. Olaf Band
plays at the A-Y-P"
Evelyn McDaniel Gibb & Eric Norris, "Wheels North:
Recreating the Historic Journey of Two Young
Cyclists to the A-Y-P"
3:10-4:00pm SESSION 4, TRACK B "Health in the City"
Moderator: Bud Nicola, M.D.
Cathy Lykes, "Health and Medicine and the A-Y-P"
Colleen Weum, "Infant Incubators, The Typhoid Outbreak,
Textbooks and Health Devices - A Selected
Look at Public Health at the A-Y-P"
4:10-5:00p.m. SESSION 5, TRACK AB "Making Memories"
Moderator: Carolyn Marr
Anne Frantilla, "Behind the Scenes at the Fair: The City of
Seattle and A-Y-P"
Nicolette Bromberg, "A World in Glass: Photographer Frank
H. Nowell and the A-Y-P"
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LocationMuseum of History and Industry
2700 24th Ave. E.
Seattle, WA 98112
United States
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