by Hank Nuwer | Aug 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
My wife Gosia and I love visiting small cities in Alaska. The last two years, we’ve popped over to Sitka, King Salmon, Kodiak, Seward and Nome. This time we chose Cordova, Alaska. On the plane to Cordova we met our...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
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 | Aug 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Ended my weekly column for Winchester, IN paper to put more time into something I’ve only dabbled in: writing short stories and longer memoir. Change is hard for me, where once it was easy, but this may be the right time. I’ve enjoyed seeing my stories and...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
FINAL COPY Sons of the Dawn By Hank Nuwer A novel of Old Nevada z “Better...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer A miner from Greece lay mortally wounded in the brush at Cordova on September 27, 1914. The victim called to a startled passerby. “I’ll give you five dollars if you help me to the hospital,” he said. The passerby...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
If the citizens of Cordova of 1911 were to adopt a slogan, it might be “Take this coal and shove it.” And shove it or, more accurately, shovel it they did—by the ton. The brouhaha began back in 1906. President Teddy Roosevelt’s...
