The Pacific Northwest Historians Guild and the Queen Anne Historical Society present a special program on the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle's beautiful, first World's Fair. Local resident Dan Kerlee will present many rare and uncommonly seen images, many from private sources, of this spectacular and wide-ranging event. The six-month long exposition, several years in planning, helped present Seattle as an important emerging cultural, trade, and manufacturing center, and showcased the great and varied potential of Alaska as well as the entire West Coast and the Pacific Rim. Mr. Kerlee has been studying, writing, and speaking about the AYPE for over twenty years and is author of a website on the exposition, AYPE.com. He will share many unusual photographs, magazines, and other images gathered from across the country and around the world that greatly enhance our understanding of what it was like to be a visitor at the fair. The program will take at place Thursday, March 31 at 7 pm. in Seattle Pacific University's Ames Library, 3226 Sixth Avenue W. The Ames Library is located off 6th Avenue West, between W. Bertona and W. Dravus Streets on lower North Queen Anne hill. Free parking is available nearby off W. Dravus St. and 4th Avenue W. Ample time will be provided for post-talk discussion.