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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
Minto, Alaska
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...
What matters is how you “plate” the game
Last week I found my wife Gosia and our visitors from London and Poland in an excited state. Gosia explained that a raptor swooped out of the sky, and its wings blocked her view from the van’s windshield. Gosia braced for impact that never came. At the moment of...
Bright skies, Little City: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home to Auroras
What an exciting and beautiful week for two relatives from London and Gosia’s aunt from Warsaw to visit us. Their big dream was to see an aurora and the skies over Fairbanks. Late night Monday and early Tuesday morning appeared an aurora shade of green I only have...
On the Antlers of a Dilemma
The escape of a wildlife center yearling male moose has resulted in tense correspondence between its director and Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Here is what has occurred. A docile moose named Duck Moses that escaped from Kroschel Wildlife Center on...
An American nightspot with European flair: The Library Bar and Bites; Fairbanks, Alaska
Sophisticated visitors to Fairbanks may appreciate a relative newcomer named the Library Bar and Bites at 603 Lacey street. Founder and co-owner Larry Lowery prides himself on the design of the interior and likes showing a video of the bleak, empty premises before his...
The life lessons learned from Jim Kjelgaard’s outdoor books
My boyhood was spent in two cultures: Polish on my mother’s side, German-speaking Alsatian on my father’s. I used to tell my blue-collar father I longed to see Europe, a continent he saw through three vision blocks as a Sherman tank driver all of World War II. He saw...
The Nenana Depot’s lodgings are a step back in time; a close call in Maui by 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...
Belong anywhere with Airbnb: Except Salcha, Alaska
My wife Gosia and I decided to take a working vacation in Alaska early in October 2021. We landed in Anchorage and rented our usual small SUV and drove toward Kenai where I needed to do a routine freelance writing assignment. Weather that month brought cold...
Leszek Nazieme: Rolling on the Yukon River
An adventurer from Poland came to Alaska to complete his latest swimming challenge. Leszek Nazieme swam the Yukon River from Eagle to Circle, completing the 158-mile swim in 4½ days. Nazieme said his inspiration for his adventures came years ago on a stay in the Czech...