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Join us for a Cook Inlet Historical Society lecture series event.
Where: In person at the Anchorage Museum Auditorium or online via Crowdcast.
To register for the online event, click here. No registration required if attending in person.
Free and open to the public. Please use the museum’s 7th Avenue entrance.
Producer: Laura Koenig
This February marks one hundred years since a tag team of 20 mushers and over 150 sled dogs braved blizzard conditions and dangerously cold temperatures to bring life-saving anti-toxin to Nome. Cook Inlet Historical Society will mark the anniversary of the “Great Race of Mercy” with a mix of vocal and instrumental music, dramatic readings, and historical anecdotes.
Learn how this real-life drama unfolded in newspaper headlines around the world, created real-life canine and human heroes, and helped convince skeptics about the importance of vaccination in treating and preventing dreaded diphtheria. The program will honor Togo and Balto, Fritz, Prince, Jack, Scotty and a host of other sled dogs, Alaska Railroad personnel, physicians, and numerous local government agencies on the federal, territorial, and local levels.
PRODUCER/COORDINATOR: LAURA KOENIG
Laura Koenig is a member of the Cook Inlet Historical Society Board of Directors, artistic director for Anchorage Festival of Music, and an adjunct professor in the Music department at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
This is an event in the Cook Inlet Historical Society’s 2024-2025 Lecture Series. The Crowdcast link can be used to review the recorded event after the program conclusion.