JUNEAU – In her recent book, Walter Harper: Alaska Native Son, Mary Ehrlander profiles Harper, who perished with his new bride, Frances, on the Princess Sophia shipwreck. Before that fateful voyage, Harper served as riverboat pilot and winter trail guide for Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, and was the first person to summit Denali as part of Stuck’s team in 1913. The book also examines Harper’s strong Athabascan identity and his role as a bridge between Native and non-native peoples in territorial Alaska.
Ehrlander’s lecture will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 22, 2018 in the lecture hall at the Andrew P. Kashevaroff building (the APK) located at 395 Whittier Street in Juneau. This presentation is the last event in this year’s summer lecture series relating to the special exhibit Titanic of the North: The 1918 Wreck of the S.S. Princess Sophia at the Alaska State Museum, on display through Saturday, October 6. For other events around town relating to the Princess Sophia’s 100th anniversary on October 25, 2018, visit http://www.rememberthesophia.org/calendar.html.
Mary Ehrlander is the Director of Arctic and Northern Studies and a professor of history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her previous books are Education Reform in the American States and Equal Educational Opportunity: Brown’s Elusive Mandate, and she translated and edited Albin Johnson’s Seventeen Years in Alaska: A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat.
This program is co-sponsored by the Juneau-Douglas City Museum and Juneau Public Libraries as part of The Great American Read. Programming for The Great American Read is offered as part of a grant from the American Library Association and PBS. It will be recorded for later broadcast on 360 North and online at www.360north.org/at-the-apk/. Professor Ehrlander will also be at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum for a book signing at 10:30 am on Saturday.
A person experiencing a disability who needs accommodation for events hosted by the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum can contact the Division’s ADA coordinator at (907) 465-2988 to make any necessary arrangements.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Patience Frederiksen
Alaska State Librarian
907.465.2911
patience.frederiksen@alaska.gov
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