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...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 28, 2025 | Alaska Tales
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 | Apr 18, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Humor
Link: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Golden Heart Tales Cutting through my first Alaskan winter Hank Nuwer I recently sat for a fourth haircut since my arrival in Fairbanks mid-January. My wife Gosia cut me first. The second was a stylist shop near the Daily News-Miner....
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 5, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories
My wife Gosia earned her Green Card in October 2019. She gave eight-weeks’ notice at her chief accountant job in Poland and shipped what she could to Indiana. Update: On March 22, she raises her hand for the citizenship oath and comes to Alaska eligible to vote. (She...
