Castles in the Air

Break out the instruments, put on your dancing shoes, and prepare for a rollicking good time. In Castles in the Air you’ll meet the people behind the songs from BC‘s gold rush era. Here you’ll find “Mosquito” trying to persuade Mary to come home, the Lillooet Indians heading for the goldfields, Joanna McGuire carrying a mystery to her grave, and Alice Douglas scandalizing polite society by eloping with her father’s secretary. Learn the identity of the whistler who gave Septimus Winner the idea for Listen to the Mockingbird, the German dancing girls in gold rush saloons and the mulatto servant who inspired Stephen Foster to pen Hard Times Come Again No More.