The National Park Service announced recently that Clinton School graduate Spirit Trickey (’10) has been named the new chief of interpretation for Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park in Seattle, Washington.
The Seattle unit of the Klondike Gold Rush NHP works to preserve the story of the gold rush to the Yukon gold fields at the turn of the 20th Century.
Trickey, who has worked for several years as chief of interpretation at the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, earned the Freeman Tilden Award in 2010 for her work to establish a Youth Leadership Academy at the Central High site.
She is also a playwright who wrote “One Ninth,” a play about the Little Rock Central High School desegregation told through the eyes of her mother, Minnijean Brown Trickey, a member of the Little Rock Nine.
Below is an excerpt from a National Park Service press release announcing Trickey’s new job:
Spirit was born Ontario, Canada. She lived in Washington D.C. and later moved to Little Rock, where she lived for about a decade before her move to Seattle to join the team at Klondike Gold Rush. Spirit received a B.A. in mass communications from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and her master’s degree from the Clinton School of Public Service. Her international public service project at the Clinton School was with the South African education and environment project in Cape Town, South Africa.
The past ten years at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site have been especially important to her because of her personal connection to the story.
“I have made meaningful friendships while learning about our interconnected American histories,” she said. “I will miss my park family, but I am enthusiastic about the next chapter in my National Park Service career, to have the opportunity to begin a new experience to learn about the people who struggled and triumphed during the gold rush.”
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