by Hank Nuwer | Sep 25, 2026 | Alaska Tales, True Crime
Last Frontier Tales Death of a Bully By Hank Nuwer, Cordova Times Norman E. Smith was a big and brawny Alaska businessman who liked to throw his considerable weight around. He was born in Veazio, Maine, on February 28, 1873. A few newspaper articles about the...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 22, 2026 | Alaska Tales
By Hank Nuwer, as seen in the Cordova Times My wife Gosia and I often visit Delta Junction to shop for European foods at a local grocery. On the way home, we like pausing at Big Delta State Historical Park to stroll along the river bank and visit landmarks...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 18, 2026 | Alaska Tales, True Crime
When the News Was the Editor By Hank Nuwer Top photo is Ken Noblit It’s an unwritten law in the newsroom. Journalists cover the news, but never become the news. But back in 1988, the editorial staff of the Fairbanks News-Miner got a huge shock. The crime reporters had...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 16, 2026 | Alaska Tales
August 17, 2 pm Alaska time: The article below was a response to this short item published 22 hours ago. I’ve since found answers to a couple of my questions, but I think more answers will be heard before long. This is what I read in the Fairbanks Daily...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 8, 2026 | Alaska Tales, Travel Reviews
By Hank Nuwer: First published in the Cordova Times Bad news made headlines on April 1, 1937, but it was no April Fool’s joke. Officials at the Kennecott Corporation announced on April 1, 1937, that the copper mine would close within two years....
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 26, 2026 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. said in Palm Sunday that his relative was a “cultivated eccentric” as the family historian John Rauch, Sr., had once described the...
