by Hank Nuwer | Nov 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last Frontier Days. By Hank Nuwer John Hegness liked to tell people he’d come from Hell. And he had. His birthplace was Hell, Norway, which wasn’t named for a hotspot you’d like to avoid in the afterlife. Nope, his own personal Hell took its name for the Old Norse...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last Frontier Days By Hank Nuwer Right from the start, a man rarely had more strikes against him than did Ray Wise Mala. For starters, he was born Ray Wise in the mining town of Candle on the Seward Peninsula. That’s about 140 miles northwest of Nome. Snow drifts in...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Video Link Nov 13, 2025 Hank Nuwer is an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and discusses the history of hazing
by Hank Nuwer | Oct 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer Tension was high last weekend when the Fairbanks Drama Association presented playwright Frederick Knott’s classic “Dial `M’ for Murder. The tension wasn’t just onstage from the attempted murder of Margot Wendice, unfaithful wife to the...
by Hank Nuwer | Oct 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last Frontier Tales Overnight Success? Not Hardly By Hank Nuwer “Overnight success” for Alaska artist Fred Machetanz and his author wife Sara took a “mere” 15 years of struggle and penny-pinching. Ever after Fred’s 1962 one-artist show at an...
