Episode 2: Spring 2009

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Who was L. Peckinpaugh?

There’s a fire aboard a steamer named The Queen and L. Peckinpaugh, a mysterious show girl, saves a boat load of women and children with a song. The year is 1904, and the place is the mouth of the Columbia River, known by many as The Graveyard of the Pacific.

Credits:

SCRIPT: Written by Katherine Billings and performed by Casi Nichole Wilkerson as part of the Washington State History Museum’s family program "Ghosts of the Great Hall: Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Lost Treasures."

PRODUCERS: Gwen Perkins and Sharon Hultman