Sean O'Meara talks about his personal background, graduating from Western Washington, how he became involved with the Park Service, working seasonally with North Cascades and San Juan Island, starting work with Klondike Seattle in December 1992, his interpretive work, the staff at Klondike Seattle when he first started working there, his duties at the park, interpretive programs given by interpretive rangers, school programs at the park, walking tours of the Pioneer Square Historic District, programs by rangers on the cruise ships, the Trails & Rails program with Amtrak, volunteers, effects of the gold rushes on Seattle, cultivating volunteers, training volunteers, the cooperating association, Discover Your Northwest, the location of the Outdoor Recreation Information Center, the staff at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Seattle Unit when he first started working there, Willie Russell, Sue Kiefer, Mike Murphy, Marianne Mills, Ted Hager, Betsy Duncan-Clark, Todd Haskell, Marc Blackburn, Chris Smith, the neighborhood where they are located and some of the problems that occurred, involvement with the community, the Alliance for Pioneer Square, walking tours, some of the topics he covered in their ranger program, hiking the Chilkoot Trail, his time in Skagway, International Historic Park designation, interaction of the Skagway and Seattle park units, Tim Steidel, John Nordstrom, research for their exhibits, working with exhibit design, static exhibits and rotating exhibits, the museum studies students, curatorial duties for rangers, their object collection, student work projects at the park, serving as acting superintendent, his retirement, programs they provided on the cruise ships, the Junior Ranger program, enjoying working with people, expansion of the Seattle Unit's responsibilities after he left, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, the movies they show at the park, how the interpretative program has changed over the years, challenges of the job, what he wished he'd done differently, his family history during the Civil War, enjoying his job and work, working as a scuba diving instructor, the 2001 earthquake in Seattle, the earthquake effects on the Cadillac Hotel, Historic Seattle purchasing the building, the National Park Service renting space in the building, their old location in the Union Trust Annex, George Carmack's house, and the move into the Cadillac Hotel building.