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
Found in Translation: the story of Sue Markins and her birth mother
CELINA, OH - A little over a year ago, Sue Markins' phone rang. The caller said she was calling on behalf of her birth family in Japan. Markins, a Walmart pharmacy technician, was flummoxed by the call from an overseas stranger. "I hung right up," she recalls. "In...
Mrs. Lowell Thomas: Marianna Munn was like a Mrs. Marco Polo
Today I write about an Arcanum, Ohio native opposed not only to the start of that last war in Afghanistan, but also the Vietnam War. Her maiden name was Marianna Munn. She was the farmer’s daughter of Eva and John Munn, the latter the longtime head of the school board...
You never forget your first dog
My personality was formed by two different worlds I inhabited before I was 20 when I set out to earn a living as a writer and professor. I lived then in tough Buffalo, New York, neighborhoods during the week and on my two grandparents’ bucolic farms on weekends and...
A liife changing visit
All -- This is a remembrance of my visit to a leper colony. It may change your thinking on leprosy. It changed mine. By Hank Nuwer Some of my best feature stories never appeared in print. That’s because the era from 1976 to 1992 — when I wrote every...
Death of a Fairy-Tale Ending
Sunday, March 5, 2023 Good day, Reader: I was thinking of adding one of the strangest and saddest columns I ever penned. So here it is. I won't say, "Enjoy!" But maybe you'll learn something about groupthink with this tale from the past in Union City, Indiana. As a...
UA Fairbanks Nanooks score at will, 8-0, against never-give-up Lindenwood Lions
I spent the morning hiring freelancers for the Fairbanks Daily Miner's visitor guide, and then put on the coffee and settled into housecleaning. Two loads of laundry were followed by kitchen counter scrubbing, oven cleaning, vacuuming, swabbing all decks and,...
Gosia gets her citizenship!
My wife Gosia earned her Green Card in October 2019. She gave eight-weeks’ notice at her chief accountant job in Poland and shipped what she could to Indiana. Update: On March 22, she raises her hand for the citizenship oath and comes to Alaska eligible to vote. (She...
2021 Airbnbdisaster
Near Darke By Hank Nuwer My wife Gosia and I returned yesterday from a working vacation in Alaska. The mountains wore a majestic white cape of snow. As we drove hairpin turns on the Kenai Peninsula, the Avis rental car belched an ominous warning noise. Gulp, a...
Feb. 1, 2023. Stuck in the driveway
This business of transitioning from cheechako to sourdough sure is challenging. On Monday I drove back from work and stuck the little Jeep in the driveway like a bug in amber. Nobody was around to help. This cheechako is fast learning that Alaska folks like...