The City Museum is hosting three true crime presentations titled,
Death by Chocolate: An In-Depth Look at an Historic Murder in Juneau, Accompanied by a Chocolate Dessert.
Presented by historic researchers and former reporters, Ed Schoenfeld and Betsy Longenbaugh, each presentation will feature a chocolate dessert and an hour-long program on a murder from early days in Juneau and Douglas. Tickets for each presentation must be purchased in advance.
The first
Death by Chocolate
presentation is scheduled for January 11, from 4-6pm at the City Museum. For this presntation, Schoenfeld and Longenbaugh will delve into the 1902 death of N.C. Jones at the hands of Joseph MacDonald, then superintendent of the Treadwell mines. Attendees will be served
Chocolate Gold Cake.
In 2018, Schoenfeld and Longenbaugh received a Juneau History Grant to create a public presentation about little-known murders that occurred in Juneau from 1898-1960. This popular presentation led the pair to create a
True Crimes: Capital Killers
walking tour for the City Museum, and as volunteer tour guides, they led four sold-out tours during the summer of 2019.
The idea for the
Death by Chocolate
presentation series sprung from Schoenfeld and Longenbaugh’s historic research. “
Having spent the past year looking into local killings during the first six decades of the 1900s, we a found three worthy of further investigation,”
says Longenbaugh.
Two more
Death by Chocolate
presentations are scheduled-one on February 22 and one on March 7 and will focus on different murders accompanied by different desserts.
Tickets are available to purchase at the City Museum. The price for each presentation is $25.00 (or $65.00 for all three if purchased before January 11). Space is limited. For more information about the
Death by Chocolate
series visit j
juneau.org/library/museum
or call 586-3572.
