Hank Nuwer Alaska Yarns

Weekend traveling all over Alaska by plane or car brings excitement and pleasure to my wife Gosia and me. Last weekend, we drove to the IGA Food Cache’s European section in Delta Juntion to stock up on the goodies Gosia enjoyed growing up in her native Warsaw. We...

Thank you so much, Representative Lucy!!!IMG_3051 Honored to be included in the Congressional Record.  VIDEO of Georgia Rep. Lucy McBath   https://realalaskadaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_3051.mp4

Hollywood came to Cordova in 1927. The filmmakers planned to make an action thriller. The movie ended up a tragedy for three men on set. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “The Trail of ‘98” was directed by Clarence Brown. The movie loosely was drawn from the novel about Alaska...

Last Frontier Days War in the Aleutians and More: Robert L. Sherrod’s Correspondence  By Hank Nuwer                  Historian Ray E. Boomhower’s detailed book, “Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod” (Indiana University Press,...

Giving Face to Loss By Hank Nuwer “Stay the hell out of New York.” The message blipped onto my laptop screen, sent by a New York journalist acquaintance of mine who was covering the biggest story of his life. If words on a screen could be heard, these would have been...

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”                                        --The Eagles            In 1982, on writing business, I drove to Hollywood, and the old neighborhood north of Sunset where I once lived. A mutual acquaintance...

100 years ago this month: Raymond E. Morris, 18 (born Feb. 26, 1906), tried to intervene when a mob of hazers picked on his little brother, Benjamin, 14. "Bennie" resisted the then-"traditional" hair scalping of high school first-year-students. Hazer William Duff, 17,...

My column today profiles a Winchester member of the Cup of Coffee Club. That club consists of baseball players who participated in a single major league game.  Troy Levi Puckett was a descendent of close-knit kin who held a family reunion each year in Randolph County....

Dorothy Rowe, was the author of children’s books in the 1920s. She set her stories in China and Japan, including a best seller, “The Rabbit Lantern.” She taught children in Nanking, China, working with her missionary parents, when she met and married Benjamin March in...