by Hank Nuwer | Jun 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Tanana Valley Farmers Market celebration this weekend made me curious about the first-ever event. I found the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner edition from July 20, 1973, with a short article buried on Page 3. The headline read: “Farmers market here Saturday.” The...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
First published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, June 20, 2023 My wife, Gosia, and I were petless until a mid-size toad came into our lives not long before we moved to Alaska. He excavated a home in the second step of our stoop. A chunk of concrete fell out and...
by Hank Nuwer | May 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m a hard-bitten columnist. However, I’m not a hard-bitten journalist like the late tough guy Mike Royko, or the late cigar-chomping Jimmy Breslin, or the late hard-drinking Pete Hamill. No, no, I’m not like that tough-guy trio at all. I’m more the soft, cuddly... by Hank Nuwer | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
First published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, May 14, 2023 by FDNM manging editor Hank Nuwer Once upon a time, a baseball game took its own sweet time from start to finish. A pitcher dawdled with a resin bag on the mound. A batter called time two-three times in a...
by Hank Nuwer | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
First published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner My wife Gosia left our house on the Indiana-Ohio state line and landed at Fairbanks International Airport at 1:30 a.m. on Friday. A U.S. citizen of one month and originally from Poland, Gosia traveled minus her...
