by Hank Nuwer | Jun 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Four bandits sped into Farmland from the northwest at 1 p.m. on April 28, 1937, passing the plows and tractors of farmers who worked for their daily bread. As lookout Clarence Shaffer and another man stood guard by the getaway car with tommy guns locked and loaded,...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Martha Whitworth was the daughter of a Louisville, Kentucky teamster and staunch Republican named John Whitworth. In 1892, she married physician Charles Whitworth Vimont, the son of Lewis Thomas Vimont of Louisville. The Vimont family had been the topic of...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
A pioneer Cordova businessman named Harry Christie lived his life pretty much unknown by the outside world, but all that changed two days after his death. Born in Illinois, Christie arrived in the Copper River Delta about 1905, intending to make his fortune as...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer Experiencing an adventure in Nome, Alaska, across from mainland Russia, was on a bucket list for my wife Gosia and me. Last Memorial Day weekend we flew to this historic Western city where Wyatt Earp ran the Dexter Saloon during the Gold Rush Days of...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
by Hank Nuwer (First published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 9/6/2023) A cartoon in The New Yorker last week spoke to me and my wife Gosia. Old Father Time stood on a street corner with a sign reading, “The End of Summer is near, and you still haven’t made any...
