by Hank Nuwer | Sep 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
by Hank Nuwer Julia Plessinger decided that she was not meant to be a fish mom. The Union City (IN) wife and mother kept her kids’ goldfish tank on her kitchen table. “I would sit and drink coffee and watch the fish every morning,” she said. But one day she discovered...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
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 | Sep 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thank you so much, Representative Lucy!!!IMG_3051 Honored to be included in the Congressional Record. VIDEO of Georgia Rep. Lucy McBath ...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hollywood came to Cordova in 1927. The filmmakers planned to make an action thriller. The movie ended up a tragedy for three men on set. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “The Trail of ‘98” was directed by Clarence Brown. The movie loosely was drawn from the novel about Alaska...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last Frontier Days War in the Aleutians and More: Robert L. Sherrod’s Correspondence By Hank Nuwer Historian Ray E. Boomhower’s detailed book, “Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod” (Indiana University Press,...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Giving Face to Loss By Hank Nuwer “Stay the hell out of New York.” The message blipped onto my laptop screen, sent by a New York journalist acquaintance of mine who was covering the biggest story of his life. If words on a screen could be heard, these would have been...
