by Hank Nuwer | Jan 22, 2025 | Alaska Tales, True Crime
By Hank Nuwer The nation’s newspapers carried a two-paragraph story after President Warren G. Harding issued a pardon to an Alaskan murderer on Thanksgiving Day, 1921. The details were scarce. The San Francisco Bulletin said the newly free man was George Pestriakoff,...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 28, 2024 | Alaska Tales, Travel Reviews
Weekend traveling all over Alaska by plane or car brings excitement and pleasure to my wife Gosia and me. Last weekend, we drove to the IGA Food Cache’s European section in Delta Juntion to stock up on the goodies Gosia enjoyed growing up in her native Warsaw. We...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 22, 2024 | Alaska Tales, Travel Reviews
For my wife Malgorzata’s recent birthday, I bought a floral bouquet and, trying to be creative, a black-and-tan Louie’s Lunch Bucket from Duluth Trading Company ($89.95) to take to work. The bucket proved big enough to hold a six pack of soda pop,...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 18, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
Time has flown since a job recruiter contacted me and I inked a contract in November 2022. My first columns for the Daily News-Miner told of the driving challenges my wife Gosia and I faced as we moved from a house on the Indiana-Ohio border to Fairbanks by navigating... by Hank Nuwer | Sep 1, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Travel Reviews
Many years ago, on assignment for the AARP, Country Gentleman and Outside magazines, I stayed at more than a dozen century-old hotels in the American West. Some like the Copper Queen in Bisbee, Arizona, were under renovation at the time, but their lobbies and dining...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 23, 2023 | Alaska Tales
Romeo and Juliet opened with Shakespeare’s oft-recited prologue as the entire cast assembles. Photo by Bryan Kramer Review by Selena Moore “Romeo and Juliet” is arguably Shakespeare’s most well known play. There are numerous film adaptations, it’s the inspiration for...
