by Hank Nuwer | Mar 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
by Hank Nuwer Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald won acclaim for two novels. The first was “This Side of Paradise” in 1920. It was a semi-autobiographical novel about a Princeton student who chases fleshly pleasures like the rest of his Lost Generation. The second was the...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Daredevil of the Skies, Floyd Andrew DeHay, aka Frank Dorbrandt By Hank Nuwer Alaska’s wide spaces, upper-level win currents, and landing fields in questionable condition made flying in pioneer days before World War Two required pilots with uncommon skill, guts and...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer Alaska’s native peoples called her “Big Girl” because she was tall and rugged as a logger. Others, whose lives she saved with grit, heart and sheer determination over more than a half-century, called her an angel or saint. Nurse and...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Cordova Daily Times in 1923 devoted a page to student learning. I selected at random the news for Feb. 10-17. 1923. The information remains interesting more than a century later. For starters, we learn that the faculty had only three teachers. School...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer When federal prisoner Frederick A. Cook was released from a Leavenworth prison in March of 1930, he had $50 in his billfold, which was, at age 65, his entire life savings. His accomplishments in that long lifetime were considerable. And he once...
