by Hank Nuwer | Sep 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
What an exciting and beautiful week for two relatives from London and Gosia’s aunt from Warsaw to visit us. Their big dream was to see an aurora and the skies over Fairbanks. Late night Monday and early Tuesday morning appeared an aurora shade of green I only have...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
The escape of a wildlife center yearling male moose has resulted in tense correspondence between its director and Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Here is what has occurred. A docile moose named Duck Moses that escaped from Kroschel Wildlife Center on...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sophisticated visitors to Fairbanks may appreciate a relative newcomer named the Library Bar and Bites at 603 Lacey street. Founder and co-owner Larry Lowery prides himself on the design of the interior and likes showing a video of the bleak, empty premises before his... by Hank Nuwer | Sep 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
My boyhood was spent in two cultures: Polish on my mother’s side, German-speaking Alsatian on my father’s. I used to tell my blue-collar father I longed to see Europe, a continent he saw through three vision blocks as a Sherman tank driver all of World War II. He saw... by Hank Nuwer | Sep 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Many years ago, on assignment for the AARP, Country Gentleman and Outside magazines, I stayed at more than a dozen century-old hotels in the American West. Some like the Copper Queen in Bisbee, Arizona, were under renovation at the time, but their lobbies and dining...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
My wife Gosia and I decided to take a working vacation in Alaska early in October 2021. We landed in Anchorage and rented our usual small SUV and drove toward Kenai where I needed to do a routine freelance writing assignment. Weather that month brought cold...
