by Hank Nuwer | Apr 18, 2025 | Alaska Tales
As I examined old newspaper accounts mentioning pioneer Alaskan Congressional delegate Daniel Alexander (Dan) Sutherland, I noticed one consistent trend. If any bigwigs from the Lower 48 were in sight, Sutherland wanted to fight them. Alaskan voters kept this...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 15, 2025 | Alaska Tales, Book Review
What happens after you find yourself mired in a precarious situation you could and should have avoided? That’s the premise driving “On the Old Denali Road,” a short story by Alaskan author Daryl Farmer in his collection “Where We Land,” published by...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 4, 2025 | Alaska Tales, True Crime
When Death Stalked the Cannery Floor By Hank Nuwer Margaret Andrianoff was born to a Japanese mother, her father unknown. Fisherman Constantine (Costia) Andrianoff and his Alaska Native wife Annie adopted her, according to the 1900 U.S. Census. Margaret, also...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 31, 2025 | Alaska Tales
My new column is about an Alaska pioneering physician who did great things but was accused and acquitted of heinous acts with children. Alaska’s Pioneering Doctor Mahlon Freeborn Hall By Hank Nuwer While miners aplenty lived in Alaska during the early years of the...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 29, 2025 | Alaska Tales, True Crime
McNeil Island prisoner William Dempsey was one of three convicts on a road gang who escaped the Washington State prison in 1940. Dempsey and two other road-gang prisoners took advantage of dense fog conditions on January 30, 1940 to attempt a getaway from the...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 22, 2025 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
Thank you to CLA for your coverage. Photos and story at below link https://www.uaf.edu/cla/news/2025/weight-of-power.php The Weight of Power Kade Mendelowitz Hank Nuwer as Harry Fatt (left), Kyle Moore as Joe and Faith Burns as Edna in Waiting for Lefty during...
