by Hank Nuwer | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
First published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, May 8, 2023, by managing editor Hank Nuwer I am writing exactly one year after my wife and I visited our acreage in Tok and vacationed in Fairbanks, Sitka, King Salmon and Kodiak before returning to home on the...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Three self-described “Old Guys” who share a passion for snowmachines are nearing the end of a month-plus-long quest to motor from Grand Rapids, Minnesota to visit the Golden City between April 3 and 5. That puts the trio a few days behind the original scheduled April... by Hank Nuwer | Mar 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Good samaritan Jim Burton saved Gosia Nuwer’s bacon. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Hank Nuwer/News-Miner “Hank, we have a problem,” my wife Gosia said from the open window of her Jeep. We were just 10 feet into Alaska after a 3,500-mile drive. The temperature was...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Farewell to the best of us journos. By Hank Nuwer John Carlson started as a copyboy in the 70s at Muncie’s evening paper. Years later, gruff World War II veterans like Dick Stodghill asked him to bring over a coffee. But jokes aside, at a newspaper with many good... by Hank Nuwer | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Today I write about an Arcanum, Ohio native opposed not only to the start of that last war in Afghanistan, but also the Vietnam War. Her maiden name was Marianna Munn. She was the farmer’s daughter of Eva and John Munn, the latter the longtime head of the school board... by Hank Nuwer | Mar 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
All — This is a remembrance of my visit to a leper colony. It may change your thinking on leprosy. It changed mine. By Hank Nuwer Some of my best feature stories never appeared in print. That’s because the era from 1976 to 1992 — when I wrote...
