by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last Frontier Days By Hank Nuwer President Warren Gamaliel Harding rose from newspaper editor in Marion, Ohio, to a “front porch” president after easily winning the 1920 election. Harding embarked on a tour of Alaska in 1923. His underlying goal was to...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hank Nuwer When The Right Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe died in British Columbia at age 85 in 1942, his thousands of friends and admirers in Alaska expressed surprise. His adventurous, rugged outdoorsman adventures, while Episcopal bishop in the North for nearly a half...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Accomplishment 2025 First Place, Best Commentary in Division, Hoosier State Press Association. 2025 Launch of HazingInfo database: https://www.hazinginfo.org/hazing-death-database-about 2025 Podcast by Ian Mandt et al, A Weed in The Garden of Academe,...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
A pioneer Cordova businessman named Harry Christie lived his life pretty much unknown by the outside world, but all that changed two days after his death. Born in Illinois, Christie arrived in the Copper River Delta about 1905, intending to make his fortune as...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer Experiencing an adventure in Nome, Alaska, across from mainland Russia, was on a bucket list for my wife Gosia and me. Last Memorial Day weekend we flew to this historic Western city where Wyatt Earp ran the Dexter Saloon during the Gold Rush Days of...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
by Hank Nuwer (First published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 9/6/2023) A cartoon in The New Yorker last week spoke to me and my wife Gosia. Old Father Time stood on a street corner with a sign reading, “The End of Summer is near, and you still haven’t made any...
