A group called Voices of Sheldon Jackson School and College will dedicate several new interpretive signs detailing the history of the school at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 28, at the corner of Lincoln Street and College Drive (across the parking lot from the old Stratton Library and Sheldon Jackson Museum).
The project began as a way to document the history of the closed school while there were still people around who attended or taught at the school. There are four main signs on Lincoln Street (two by the Youth Advocates of Sitka building and two at the campus entrance of Lincoln Street and College Drive), two signs behind the Laundry Building (across from museum), one in front of the Sitka Youth Hostel on Jeff Davis Street, and one by the old sawmill building (next to Sitka Sound Science Center). You can see images of the signs at this link.
There will be a short dedication ceremony at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 28, and the public is invited to a short dedication for new interpretive signs about the history of Sheldon Jackson School and College. The dedication will be at the new signs at the corner of Lincoln Street and College Drive. A reception with coffee, tea and cookies will follow at the Laundry Building (also known as “Smoke Stack”), on College Drive, across from the Sheldon Jackson Museum. A new website dedicated to the school’s history is being built at http://www.sjvoices.org/.
This project was made possible with the participation of graduates, former staff and other historians and experts on Sheldon Jackson history, and by the Alaska Humanities Forum, the Rasmuson Foundation, and the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. For more information, call Rebecca Poulson at 738-7448.
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