To: subscribers to museum list:

We have available for travel an excellent exhibit of historic
photographs on 100 years of oil exploration in Alaska, which needs
approximately 160 funning feet of display area.

The exhibit was very successful at the Anchorage Museum of History and
Art, where it closed in late November. It featured a number of historic
black and white photographs of the colorful characters who pursued their
dream of black gold, plus a narrative on the history of exploration in
the 49th state.  The exhibit should be of particular interest to oil
states, including California, Colorado and Texas.

The exhibit itself was put together as the result of a decade long
research project by former Anchorage Borough Mayor Jack Roderick, who
summarized the project in his book, ``Crude Dreams,'' a personal history
of oil and politics in Alaska.

Roderick came to Alaska in 1954, after service with the Navy Air Corps
in World War II, to earn money for law school. An energetic and charming
person in his own right, Roderick started Alaska's first oilfield
scouting report and an oil field exploration. Later, as a fellow of the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, he researched
Alaska's oil history and taught the subject at Alaska Pacific University
in the 1980s.

I am making this offer in behalf of Jack Roderick, who would be
available with other veterans of the Alaska oil patch, for the opening
of the show in your city. As neither of us is a member of the museum
list, please respond directly to me at:
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thank you very much,

Margaret Bauman