by Hank Nuwer | Nov 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer Alaskans and Alaskan visitors by automobile evermore owe a debt to General Wilds Preston Richardson for building the roads more traveled. A native Texan, he was born March 20, 1861, three weeks before Confederate troops fired the first shot of...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Robert Cole Caples is an enigmatic man. Seldom photographed, a lover of privacy: he became one of Nevada’s best-loved artists. By Hank Nuwer (1973) Much of the information available on Caples exists preserved in an intriguing essay by writer Walter Van Tilburg Clark...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
By HANK NUWER, It’s a story as old as the story of human progress. A new discovery or innovation heralded for its efficacy is suspected to have harmful effects that require ingenuity on the part of researchers to find an antidote to the unintended causes. I consider...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Weekends fly by all too fast, don’t they? One week ago Saturday my wife Gosia and I enjoyed the incredible vistas on the highway south of Delta Junction and north of Paxson. The next day I took Gosia for her first trip on the Dalton Highway, but we did not drive too...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
lthough I fly frequently, I don’t know any unruly passengers. Except one, I admit. Me. This incident occurred the time I boarded a flight to Minneapolis and buried my nose in an airline magazine. Vaguely, as I read, the flight attendant greeted passengers with the...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer Likely you’ll be reading this column about the same time you and I will be contemplating what direction the elected president will take our great nation the next four years. Your candidate, my candidate, either won or...
