Alaska also is home to a notable chamber music festival in the Sitka Summer Music Festival which attracts chamber musicians from around the globe, as well as the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.

A resident of Alaska since 1969, Rosenthal founded the Sitka Summer Music Festival, a chamber music festival held annually in Anchorage.

The Keystone Kops re-emerge every year in the town of Cedar Springs, Michigan during their Red Flannel Festival, and also in Sitka, Alaska during the annual Alaska Day festival.

Sitka Jazz Festival is a three-day jazz festival in the community of Sitka, Alaska that takes place every February.

The Sitka Jazz Festival was born out of Sitka High School's " jazz nights.

The Sitka Jazz Festival is modeled after the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho.

The Sitka WhaleFest logo.

sinuata ( A. sinuata, Sitka alder or slide alder-western North America, far northeastern Siberia

Foremost are Sitka spruce, the most common, and Alpine and Adirondack spruce, the most sought-after, woods for the making of guitar tops.

For example, some makers have begun producing models with redcedar or mahogany tops, or with spruce variants other than Sitka.

Wildlife includes brown bears, black bears, the endemic Alexander Archipelago wolf, Sitka black-tailed deer, humpback whales, orcas, five species of salmon, bald eagles, harlequin ducks, scoters, and marbled murrelets.

Major cities are Juneau, Ketchikan, and Sitka.

Jody Roberts, a reporter for the Tacoma News Tribune, went missing in 1985, only to be found 12 years later in Sitka, Alaska, living under the name of " Jane Dee Williams.

The wood varies by instrument, but Sitka Spruce ( Picea sitchensis ) is the most common wood used for the soundboard.

While in Sitka, President Harding visited and shook hands with Alaskan Native Tlingit elder chief Katlean outside in a crowd of people.

In the conifer classification, grand fir is found more in the northern part of Whidbey Island along with Sitka spruce and shore pine.

** Emil Sitka, American actor ( b. 1914 )

Moe tried, unsuccessfully, one final time to revive the Stooges with longtime supporting actor Emil Sitka filling in for Larry.

A promotional picture taken after Larry Fine's death in 1975 features a very ill Moe Howard ( who died shortly thereafter ) flanked by Curly Joe DeRita to the left and Emil Sitka to the right. Plans were in the works for longtime foil Emil Sitka to replace Larry as the " Middle Stooge " in 1971, but nothing ever came of that idea other than the proposed publicity still reproduced here.

The rooting habit of coast Douglas-fir is not particularly deep, with the roots tending to be shallower than those of same-aged Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, or California Incense-cedar, though deeper than Sitka Spruce.

Associated trees include Western Hemlock, Sitka Spruce, Sugar Pine, Western White Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Grand Fir, Coast Redwood, Western Redcedar, California Incense-cedar, Lawson's Cypress, Tanoak, Bigleaf Maple and several others.

Western Hemlock typically dominate oldgrowth rainforests, but contain sections of Douglas-firs, Redcedar, Alder, and even Redwood forests on their southern extent, near the Oregon and California border, while Sitka spruce increases in frequency with latitude.

North of Frederick Sound to Cape Spencer, and including Glacier Bay and the Lynn Canal, are the Northern Tlingit, who occupy the warmest and richest of the Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock forest.

Steinway parts for both factories come from the same places: Canadian maple is used for the rim, and the soundboards are made from Sitka spruce from Alaska.

Steinway soundboards are made of close-grained, quarter-sawn Sitka spruce from British Columbia and Alaska.

The Battle of Sitka ( 1804 ) played a pivotal role in the history of the Tlingit people and the formation of Russian Alaska.

The site of the battle now forms Sitka National Historical Park, the oldest national park in Alaska.

In 1802, Tlingit warriors destroyed several Russian settlements, most notably Redoubt Saint Michael ( Old Sitka ), leaving New Russia as the only remaining outpost on mainland Alaska.

Port Alexander is the only city on a small sliver of land at the southeastern corner of Baranof Island that is not part of the City and Borough of Sitka.

Among the native Sitka spruce, western hemlock and wildflowers, the garden is a unique experimental outdoor laboratory, featuring a great many exotic species such as South African honeybush, New Zealand and Tasmanian tree ferns, Chinese fig hazel, Australian Grevillia, and Chilean flame and lantern trees.

This protected stand of Sitka spruce and western hemlock is home to the federally listed species of marbled murrelet and northern spotted owl as well as other species such as the Roosevelt elk, black-tailed deer, cougar, black bear, and bald eagle.

The SWB's top is made with book matched solid Sitka spruce reclaimed from pulp logs, the back, sides and neck are solid certified cherry, and the fingerboard is certified katalox.

It is primarily second and third growth and contains many huge Douglas-fir, Western Red cedar, Western Hemlock, and Sitka Spruce trees.

Sitka complies, and Koda is reunited briefly with the spirit of his mother, before she and Sitka return to the Spirits.

The story follows the film where Kenai transformed into a bear by his brother Sitka and is being hunted by his brother Denahi.

Michener's picture is credited to Michael A. Lewis of the Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska.

In the high mountains it is replaced by the smaller Sitka alder ( Alnus viridis subsp.

After illnesses, storms, and other troubles had affected the expedition, de Heceta returned to Nueva Galicia, while Quadra kept on a northward course, ultimately reaching 59 ° North in what today is Sitka, Alaska.

Douglas fir wanes as a dominant species, and the forest is primarily made up of western red cedar, Sitka spruce, and western hemlock.

* St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka, Alaska is completed.

Its main campus is located in Juneau and it has extended campuses in Sitka and Ketchikan.

An exception to this is the subspecies, the Sitka black-tailed deer ( O. h. sitkensis ).

The Cape Lookout Trail is a popular hiking trail, extending 2. 5 miles through Sitka spruce forest to the tip of the promontory.

Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large coniferous evergreen tree growing up to 80 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 5 m, exceptionally to 6 – 7 m diameter.

The Sitka spruce is one of only five species documented to reach 300 feet in height.

Sitka spruce is a long-lived tree, with individuals over 700 years old known.