Hank Nuwer Alaska Yarns
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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.
Hank Nuwer: University of Alaska (Fairbanks) adjunct professor Hank Nuwer lives, writes, and acts in northern Alaska. Hank Nuwer Bio. Alaska Hank Nuwer News.
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 were profiled by CNN and People magazine.The “Gosiaandhank” team collaborated on an article about Alaskan road trips for Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine.
Hank recently reviewed a biography of Kurt Vonnegut by Charles J. Shields
Order direct 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
Podcast in The Culture
San Francisco’s last Super Bowl
In January 1986, I profiled Bill Walsh and the San Francisco Giants for Inside Sports magazine: Read it here at my web page at https://www.hanknuwer.com/the-winning-mind-of-san-francisco-and-former-stanford-coach-bill-walsh-by-hank-nuwer-inside-sports-magazine/
Alaska’s long deep freeze ends
After weeks of -40F and -30 and -20 temperatures, we in Fairbanks get two days of respite with temps in plus thirties. The coyotes and moose have been coming out of the deep snows to feed by the highway. Happy a chinook is here! Photo is of a young coyote snagging...
A lovely, friendly outpost in the Interior
Note: This trip was made right before the early snows fell in October. I held the story in hopes the roadhouse might open back up. It was published in the Winchester (IN) News-Gazette as a column. Photo is by Malgorzata Wroblewska Nuwer. Far from Randolph An oasis...
Hazing Culture podcast
HANK NUWER & HAZING CULTURE Writer and author of several books including Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Hank Nuwer, discusses the various forms that hazing can take, why he started tracking data of deaths and injuries, a history of tragic incidents, the functions...
You think Frank Lloyd Wright started out like this?
By Hank Nuwer Whether by blood or by marriage, I have been cursed all my life with family that make nice things with no effort. I, on the other hand, grew up artistically challenged. I became aware of this deficiency in the second grade. One summer I labored in...
Take me for a ride in your car-car
By Hank Nuwer My wife Gosia’s dream to ride at top speed in a stockcar will come true next month. That’s her birthday gift from me. 10 years ago, I seized my own stockcar opportunity on the Lucas track in Clermont, Ind. “Dear Hank. Congratulations. Drivetech...
Putting on a poopy face at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park in Cross Creek, Fla.
By Hank Nuwer “You sure put on a poopy face when something doesn’t go your way,” my wife Gosia said to me. I walked with dejection beside her as we headed toward the parking lot of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park in Cross Creek, Fla. “It’s not a poopy...
The agony of loss: Out-of-control wildfires
By Hank Nuwer In May of 1972 in Northern New Mexico, I earned my fire-fighter card from the Forest Service. The training at Hermit’s Peak mountain was unpaid. The fire fighters worked us trainees hard. I was in good condition, easily completing all tests. I recall the...
An Icy Reception in Fairbanks
I enjoyed Scott Shaffer’s “A Look Back” article last week as he recalled the Randolph County (Indiana) severe blizzard of Jan. 17, 1978. He highlighted the unselfish determination of Union City’s fire chief and crew who partnered with local snowmobilers to haul grub...