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Established in 2008, the Spenard Jazz Fest will celebrate its 15th anniversary in Anchorage this year. It's no wonder that this area specifically also openly celebrates American jazz culture, and has instituted an event to partake in its music. Long has it been the host of Tommy's Burger Stop, Chilkoot Charlies, Center Bowl, and more currently The Drip, the city's first black-owned coffee hut. The Spenard area of Alaska is known for its eclecticism and diversity amongst its people, businesses, and artistic sensibilities.PODCAST: Available on this page after the program. Post your comment or question below (Comments may be read on air). HOST: Kathleen McCoy GUESTS: Svaya Worthington, curator of the Little Lithuanian Museum & Library in Chugiak Mary Kancewick, attorney, poet, of Lithuanian descent, links indigenous rights with Lithuanian drive for sovereignty LINKS: Little Lithuanian Museum & Library website PARTICIPATE: Call 550-8433 (Anchorage) or 1-88 (statewide) during the live broadcast (10-11 a.m.) Send e-mail to before, during or after the live broadcast (E-mails may be read on air). Lithuanians were the last Pagans to be converted to Christianity in Europe, and to this day Lithuania is a fascinating blend of Paganism and Christianity.' Learn more on today's program, when Svaya will relay her family's story, her reasons for creating this museum, and much more about this Baltic state's rich and independent history. As her website explains, at one point in time, 'Lithuania was the largest principality in Europe known as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, extending from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to within 100 miles of Moscow.

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She opens her museum free to the public by appointment, June through September. All is preserved in a tiny yellow house she bought and moved near her home in Chugiak. It includes-among many historic and cultural artifacts-an old leather suitcase of family clothes from that cart in 1944. Today, Svaya curates a tiny museum celebrating Lithuanian history and culture located in the hills of Chugiak. It is open to the public free of charge June through September. The Little Lithuanian Museum & Library in Chugiak. There, she met her future husband, a park ranger, who took her to Alaska. Svaya grew up there, graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and went on to graduate school in literature and teaching at the University of New Mexico. They spent years as refugees, finally coming to the United States - first New Jersey and then Illinois, where a relative resided. Her family left everything, walking behind a cart carrying their belongings, with a cow trailing behind. Some of Svaya's relatives were taken to Soviet gulags.

And, as with events in Ukraine today, there was active resistance. Towards the end of the war in 1944, as the Germans were retreating, the Soviet Union reoccupied Lithuania. During World War II, Lithuania had been occupied first by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany. Svaja Worthington was only five years old in 1944 when her family walked away from their Lithuanian home in the face of Russian brutality. Wikimedia Commons image by photographer Andrius Petrulevicius, Lithuanian Central State.

An unarmed Lithuanian citizen stands against a Soviet tank.

The night of Soviet killings of Januin Vilnius, Lithuania.

JHometown Alaska: Tiny museum in Chugiak honors Lithuania's fierce independence