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...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 22, 2025 | Alaska Tales
from the Cordova Times, March 21, 2025 When Flu Fears Raged in Alaska By Hank Nuwer The Cordova Times in 1920 addressed a nasty flu outbreak that resulted in deaths all over Alaska from 1918 to 1920. Similar outbreaks in Seattle, Chicago and New York resulted in many...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 11, 2025 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
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 | Alaska Tales, True Crime
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...
