Stories, Journalism & Vonnegut Bio Hank Nuwer
Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of Hank Nuwer with photos of Alaska and its wildlife by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer.
You’ll find that I’ve added some finished and partially finished biography-in-progress of Kurt Vonnegut, “The Man in the Hole.”
Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing. Podcast in The Culture
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” with Hank Nuwer
Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.Thank you for reading. Got a compliment or gripe? Drop a line to Hjnuwer@Alaska.edu. Gosia and I want to keep this site ad-free. Trying to raise funds for last-minute research on my Kurt Vonnegut biography: “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention.” (“Not authorized, but authentic scholarship”). Your donation would be so helpful: Hank Nuwer, PO Box 73446; Fairbanks, AK 99707-3446.
Hollywood Knights by Hank Nuwer
“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...
A fatal act of brotherly love by Hank Nuwer
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,...
Troy Levi Puckett: Cup of Coffee in the Bigs
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 and her Love Test: 1/3 of the triangle was doomed
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...
Zachariah T. (Z. T.) Lewis: Banker and Criminal
Do the Crime, Do the Time By Hank Nuwer About the time Butch Cassidy and his gang robbed banks for fun and profit out West, Ohio also had its own dirty, lowdown bank robber. Only difference, instead of stickups, Zachariah T. (Z. T.) Lewis of...
Timothy K. Rodeheffer: Merciless Monster Murderer
Timothy K. Rodeheffer. by Hank Nuwer On February 21, 1998, a 19-year-old gentle soul named Lynn Top from North Star, Ohio, walked for exercise on a less-traveled road off Ohio 49. A student at Wright State University’s Lake Campus in Celina, she had thick, abundant...
Garry Farnham’s Nenana Railroad Museum Review (Hank Nuwer)
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...
Video: Hank Nuwer’s Sons of the Dawn: A Basque Odyssey
Link to the video review with photos
Going on a wild elephant chase By Hank Nuwer
On November 11, 1942, an escaped elephant stole headlines, including a story with an oversized photo in the Union City Times-Gazette. The Great American Circus with three starring elephants came to Wabash to put on a show as a fundraiser at the local high school...