 Museum Unveils New Exhibit February 14, 2003 February 12 , 2003
Ketchikan has had 23 general circulation newspapers since 1900, including a dizzying array of Miners, Mails, Tribunes, Journals, Reporters, Chronicles and Examiners. Examples of all but four of them are included in this exhibit. Forty-six front pages will be highlighted in Extra! Extra!, revealing some of the local, national and world news that has shaped history. Information about many of the newsmen and women who published these newspapers will also be featured. Like that of A.P. Swineford, who launched Ketchikan's first locally published newspaper, The Mining Journal, in 1901. Or of rival editors Sid Charles and Bill Baker, who frequently took blistering aim at one another through the editorial pages of their competing papers, the Ketchikan Daily News and Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle. Also included in this exhibit will be examples of many of the occasional and specialty newspapers that have appeared locally, from the Alaska Fisherman to The LOCAL Paper to Weekly Images. The opening reception of Extra! Extra! The Newspapers of Ketchikan will be on February 14, 2003, from 5 - 7 p.m. Past and present staffers of the Ketchikan Daily News, Ketchikan's longest running newspaper, are co-hosting the reception. Musicians Sheila Kleinschmidt and Sarah Corporon will play flute and keyboard. Ada Sutton, wearing the Elizabethan-inspired newspaper dress made by Jackie Keizer for the 2002 Wearable Art Show, will also make an appearance. For more information about this exhibit, call the Tongass Historical Museum at 225-5600.
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