Players spoof Alaska purchase, historic figures of period

Lynn Canal Community Players presented a dinner theater reenactment of U.S. Secretary of State William Seward’s negotiations with the Russians for the purchase of the Alaska territory.

The comical, revisionist history Saturday explored an alternative explanation for how the Americans unnecessarily paid the Russians far more than they intended for “Andrew Johnson’s Polar Bear Garden.”

Wine and vodka flowed as a cast of Haines characters dressed as historical figures to witness the historic 1867 event.