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Cook Inlet Historical Society Presents: Journalistic Ghosts—Grace G. Boswick and Edmund Ogden Sawyer

7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21

Auditorium or Online via Crowdcast

In-Person and Online Event

Two journalists, one male and one female, each from Northwest Washington. Each was successful in the contiguous United States. Each came to Alaska in 1913 seeking greater notoriety by covering the Chisana gold stampede. Although Chisana ultimately proved a disappointment, Bostwick and Sawyer tried to build a future in Alaska. Both were gifted self-promoters but, ultimately, the fame they sought proved as scant and ethereal as Chisana gold.
 
About the Speaker
Rick Goodfellow is the owner and founder of KLEF, Anchorage's classical music radio station. He also created and led ghost tours of Anchorage for twenty years. 

Images:
E. O. Sawyer: “Who’s Who in the Fishing World,” Canadian Fisherman, January 1919, 8, Internet Archive.
Grace Boswick: “Washington Women Who Do Things,” Seattle-Post Intelligencer, December 21, 1908, 10. Seattle Public Library. 

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