by Hank Nuwer | Jun 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Martha Whitworth was the daughter of a Louisville, Kentucky teamster and staunch Republican named John Whitworth. In 1892, she married physician Charles Whitworth Vimont, the son of Lewis Thomas Vimont of Louisville. The Vimont family had been the topic of...
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...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
by Hank Nuwer I don’t gamble, but if I did my adrenaline might skyrocket as it did the night I entered an online Great North Auction for the stamp collection of the late Russell Hobart Green Jr. of Fairbanks. I knew exactly what was in the collection and had a pretty...
by Hank Nuwer | May 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Photo: the late former Florence Livingston Thurman Livingston, 12, and his sister Florence, 8, were typical kids enjoying life on a farm northeast of Union City. On Aug. 30, 1936, around 10 a.m., they decided to build a fire in the woods near their home. Thurman, a...
