Story Laureate Speaker Series: John Firth
Doors at 5, presentation at 5:30pm
Yukon Transportation Museum (Bush Pilot Room)
Light refreshments provided
Admission by donation
Yukon Transportation Museum (Bush Pilot Room)
Light refreshments provided
Admission by donation
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“Hey, I’m Alive!”
In this public talk, John Firth will turn back the clock to February 1963 and return to the scene of the famous Ralph Flores-Helen Klaben crash southeast of Watson Lake. The pair’s seven week odyssey in the Yukon wilderness was breathlessly covered by media outlets all over the world, and their unlikely survival has become a Yukon tale for the ages. Join John at YTM as he chats about the eccentricities and oddities of this story to top all stories
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John Firth is the Story Laureate for Yukon.
He is an award-winning storyteller/writer whose books include The Caribou Hotel: Hauntings, hospitality, a hunter and the parrot, One Mush: Jamaica’s Dogsled Team, Yukon Sport : An Illustrated Encyclopedia, River Time: Racing the Ghosts of the Klondike Rush, Better Than A Cure: One man’s journey to free the world of Polio (with Ramesh Ferris) and Yukon Quest: The 1000-mile sled dog race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse.