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 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
Listen live to Hank Nuwer as Kris Kringle
Thanks to Lori Neufeld of KUAC, here are several Christmas songs and scenes from Miracle on 34th Street presented by Fairbanks Drama Association. Link:...
Finding small treasures in a sea of trash
Finding small treasures in a sea of trash by Hank Nuwer My wife Gosia and I like flea markets. Gosia discovered the ramshackle Schleeters Auction and Flea Market in St. Marys, Ohio. Last Saturday, she brought me there to browse. I contemplated buying a 1957 Christmas...
Recognized as I volunteered for Salvation Army Red Kettle campaign
Little kid said, “it’s Santa!” — 😂
Thanksgiving morning greeting from Safeway cashier
Picked up salad fixings first thing Thanksgiving Day at Fairbanks Safeway. west store. "Happy holidays," I said to the large cashier. "How are you?" "Falling apart," he boomed. "But happy holidays, anyway." I guess that's what is meant by his full disclosure?
How small of a town is Fairbanks, Alaska?
Fairbanks, AK, I swear, is as smalltown as any town in America. I called the local hospital today to get an appointment for a colonoscopy. The male operator asked for my name. "Nuwer," I said. "Oh, must be Hank Nuwer," he said. Uhhuh. Like I said: Small Town, USA.
Going once, going twice—Sold!
by Hank Nuwer, Winchester News-Gazette column I don’t gamble, but if I did my adrenaline might skyrocket as it did the night I entered an online Great North Auction for the stamp collection of the late Russell Hobart Green, Jr. of Fairbanks. I knew exactly what was in...
Weekends
Weekends fly by all too fast, don’t they? One week ago Saturday my wife Gosia and I enjoyed the incredible vistas on the highway south of Delta Junction and north of Paxson. The next day I took Gosia for her first trip on the Dalton Highway, but we did not drive too...
Farewell to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Time has flown since a job recruiter contacted me and I inked a contract in November 2022. My first columns for the Daily News-Miner told of the driving challenges my wife Gosia and I faced as we moved from a house on the Indiana-Ohio border to Fairbanks by navigating...
Bob Knight: In Memoriam
During the late 1970s, 1980s and early ’90s, I was a contributing sports editor for Inside Sports, Sport and Success (business) magazines. It was a different era then and sportswriters like me writing 3,000- to 7,500-word features had a lot more access to athletes and...