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Welcome. Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of two-time Alaska Press Club Suzan Nightingale Best Columnist Hank Nuwer with occasional photos by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer. Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.
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Gosia Nuwer photographs Alaska and its wildlife. She and Hank reside in Fairbanks, Alaska, with 5 acres in remote Alaska and a vacation cabin in Poland.
Gosia and her husband Hank recently collaborated on an article about Alaskan road trips for Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine.
Hank reviewed “And So It Goes,” a biography of Kurt Vonnegut by Charles J. Shields
Link to Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” by journalist Ian Mandt with interviewee Hank Nuwer
Nuwer interviewed by NPR’s Audie Cornish
Link to the Cordova Times
Podcast in The Culture
Resurrecting a Dream Deferred
By Hank Nuwer Lately, I’ve no time to spare. That’s because yours truly, a senior citizen turning 78 in August, is once again acting like a young man. I literally mean “acting.” I’ve hogged center stage in many theater productions and one movie filming. I rehearse or...
Ira W. Porter: Nogoodnik from Indiana
The notorious Ira W. Porter by Hank Nuwer Notorious Randolph County (IN) resident Ira W. Porter was born in 1844, the son of James and Hannah Porter. Ira served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Around 1870, he married Mary A. Porter, and by 1880, fathered Nancy...
Headshots for UAF play “Something in the Living Room”
Photos courtesy of AAF CLA. Hank Nuwer playing The Professor in the 2024 play "Something in the Living Room."
Delta Junction’s Hard Wok Cafe
Serendipity at the Hard Wok Cafe A cartoon in The New Yorker magazine last issue spoke to me. Old white-bearded Father Time stood on a street corner with a sign reading, “The End of Summer is near, and you still haven’t made any plans.” Too true, so on Saturday, Gosia...
Filming “Love Me!” this weekend
Gosia is playing in the UAF film Love Me!" by Nolan Everett as filming commences this weekend. I play "Uncle" Arnold. The UAF Film division cebrated its 13th birthday. Here's a long-ago photo of me as Lovborg in Hedda Gabler.
A Tribute to a Hunter Dying Young
Much of the pleasure in working as a journalist stems from opportunities to write outdoor columns and features for local and national magazines. My most moving assignment was writing a sad tribute column titled “To a Hunter Dying Young.” A lean, rugged and boyish...
Haleloke Kahauelopua, Randolph County’s refugee from Show Business
Far from Randolph By Hank Nuwer In the early 1950s an Admiral TV appeared in the Nuwer household’s living room. Because there were only four networks, even minor TV stars drew viewers the way Taylor Swift today transfixes fans. Everyone in America seemed to watch the...
Rep. David Eastman’s Immodest Proposal
"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 Juvenalian satirical essay written and...
Good fences don’t always make good neighbors.
Good fences don’t always make good neighbors. By Hank Nuwer Leviticus 19:13 tells us, “Thou shall not oppress your neighbor.” That Bible quotation came back to me in Fairbanks, Alaska on Saturday at a brilliant, albeit disturbing performance of Native Gardens by...