GOLD FEVER: Skagway, Alaska - home to the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. Centennial Park. Located at 1st and Broadway, the park features the city’s Centennial Statue of a Tlingit Packer leading a prospector up the Klondike trail.
"Where are you from?" asks the master of ceremonies at the Skaguay in the Days of 1898 Show. "Munich!" someone shouts back. "Sydney!" cries another. "Santa Olaya, Puerto Rico!" shouts a third. "Wha???!!" asks the master of ceremonies. "Yeyito," the third man cries. "I am Yeyito, Alcarde de Santa Olaya!"
Photo caption: Skagway, Alaska - home to the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. Centennial Statue, Centennial Park.
(L to R) Skookum Jim, a Tlingit from the Carcross-Tagish area; Dawson Charlie, a prospector; and Amaury Oyola, aka Yeyito, Alcarde de Santa Olaya,(among other characters,[ed.]) visiting from Santa Olaya, Puerto Rico. June, 2011.
Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR
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