by Hank Nuwer | Feb 27, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
This business of transitioning from cheechako to sourdough sure is challenging. On Monday I drove back from work and stuck the little Jeep in the driveway like a bug in amber. Nobody was around to help. This cheechako is fast learning that Alaska folks like...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 27, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
Singing, “Let it snow, let it snow, let it stop” Well, it happened again. I went cheechako again and had to call AAA to rescue me out of the snow. My little Jeep Renegade lost all traction on High Grade Way. I threw on the red flashers as I waited... by Hank Nuwer | Feb 27, 2023 | Alaska Tales
Golden Heart Tales: by Hank Nuwer With my sweetheart thousands of miles away at our big house on the Indiana stateline, I had time on my hands this weekend. What better way to spend it than to look up past Valentine’s Day celebrations in the Fairbanks paper?... by Hank Nuwer | Feb 26, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
Nearly two weeks after finishing the drive from the Midwest to Fairbanks, I find myself marveling at the photos my wife Gosia snapped. Each turn of the Alaska Highway brought a new peak to admire. I stood beneath a couple high-risers and risked falling over backwards... by Hank Nuwer | Feb 26, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
This week’s Fairbanks Daily News Miner’s editorial board decision to address Alaska’s poor record on keeping up with essential childhood disease vaccinations sent me back to the archives of the News-Miner from 1953 to 1955. Massive fear about the disease among... by Hank Nuwer | Feb 26, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Humor
Here is an oldie from Feb. 22, 2023 ‘A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making them Beneficial to the Publick,” commonly referred to in English Lit as “A Modest Proposal,” is a...
