Hank Nuwer Alaska Yarns
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Welcome. Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of two-time Alaska Press Club Suzan Nightingale Best Columnist Hank Nuwer with occasional photos by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer. Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.
Hank Nuwer: University of Alaska (Fairbanks) adjunct professor Hank Nuwer lives, writes, and acts in northern Alaska. Hank Nuwer Bio. Alaska Hank Nuwer News.
Gosia Nuwer photographs Alaska and its wildlife. She and Hank reside in Fairbanks, Alaska, with 5 acres in remote Alaska and a vacation cabin in Poland.
Gosia and her husband Hank recently collaborated on an article about Alaskan road trips for Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine.
Hank reviewed “And So It Goes,” a biography of Kurt Vonnegut by Charles J. Shields
Link to Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” by journalist Ian Mandt with interviewee Hank Nuwer
Nuwer interviewed by NPR’s Audie Cornish
Link to the Cordova Times
Podcast in The Culture
The Great Greenville Peacock Plumage Caper
By Hank Nuwer, with photo by Goosia Nuwer Daily Advocate - June 9, 2022 0 Female peafowl are peahens. Male peafowl are peacocks. People who molest the birds are peabrains. This tearful tale of tail-feather thievery began late in the night of...
Indiana history: Union City’s Crown Jewel: The Carnegie Library
By Hank Nuwer, Archives “Books…are like TV for smart people,” actor Robert Redford declares in the film “A Walk in the Woods.” “Would you say you grew up poor?” “Oh, we grew up poor. But not impoverished.” “What’s the difference?” “The library.” — Pete Hamill...
A no-good skunk lit out for Nebraska. That skunk wasn’t hard to locate
By Hank Nuwer Fasten your seatbelt, reader. This is the story of George Washington Clear, born in 1849, the youngest son of Phillip and Mrs. Clear. On June 7, 1871, Clear married a young woman from Union City, IN, named Anna Moist. ...
Vote for Us, Pretty Please: Variety Magazine’s Favorite Couple!!!
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A travel review of Denali National Park
Last Frontier Tales Making Memories on the Magic Mountain By Hank Nuwer First published in Cordova Times A visit of our Natalia to Alaska inspired my wife Gosia and me to get off our duffs and into the gorgeous country. The three of us agreed to...
Hank and Gosia in Poland: PRZYJACIOTKA Magazine
See Valdez, and Enjoy!
Last Frontier Tales Sea Lions and Whales and Otters and Puffins: Oh Boy! Travel Review: Stan Stephens Cruises By Hank Nuwer My wife Gosia, daughter Natalia, and myself could not have been more excited when we reached a road sign noting the empty lots where Old...
Paul Solka: Alaska Painter and Chronicler of Pioneer Life
Last Frontier Tales A Lost Treasure Found: Cordova Times Book Review Paul Solka: Alaska Painter and Chronicler of Pioneer Life By Hank Nuwer, Cordova Times Solka: In His Words and Art Ray Bonnell and Chuck Gray, Editors Fairbanks: Pingo Press, 2025; $25...
This is quite the yarn!
Last Frontier Tales He Had It Coming By Hank Nuwer Dan Berger was an Alaska sourdough who never struck it rich. He came to Alaska from Who Knows Where in 1897. He raced, too late, to every announced new gold strike. Finally, in 1906, he made...