by Hank Nuwer | Feb 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Like all of you, I finished tons of art projects while in grade school. After we finished, my fellow students decorated the classroom walls with their masterpieces. Unfortunately, the teacher always said, “You can take yours home.” I figured the nuns believed I lived... by Hank Nuwer | Feb 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
This week’s Fairbanks Daily News Miner’s editorial board decision to address Alaska’s poor record on keeping up with essential childhood disease vaccinations sent me back to the archives of the News-Miner from 1953 to 1955. Massive fear about the disease among... by Hank Nuwer | Feb 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here is an oldie from Feb. 22, 2023 ‘A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making them Beneficial to the Publick,” commonly referred to in English Lit as “A Modest Proposal,” is a...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
My office wall at the News-Miner was mostly bare except for a calendar in Polish. This past week I purchased a low-budget painting of a cabin in the woods signed by watercolorist Helen Atkinson. The artist was born Helen Linck in 1915. Her birthplace was Gold Road,...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
The road to sourdough from cheechako received another setback Thursday. My snowplow guy had not yet cleaned my driveway, but somehow, I made my little Jeep barrel over ice and deep snow right up to the garage door. Right that moment, I felt pride. And we all know what... by Hank Nuwer | Feb 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
I see that the News-Miner web page carries an ad for a calendar with outhouse photos. Outhouses on both western New York boyhood farms of my grandparents were hardly a photographic attraction. My German grandfather stocked real toilet paper in his outhouse. My Polish...
