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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
Super background article on the TV show Alaska Daily: Returns March 2, 2023
Seriously, these three writers (David Hulen, Kyle Hopkins, Vicky Ho) thought of every question a viewer like me might have and answered it. Thank you, David, Kyle and Vicky. Super job. Follow the link here. It's worth your time. Below is why the show's return is...
Thar’s gold in them thar dollar stores
Christmas has come and gone. Weeks later, our family still had one gift to unwrap. Yes, I have a story to tell. But first I want to explain why the Christmas of ’52 was my most unforgettable childhood holiday. That was the year I printed a list for Santa only slightly...
Traveling on Moose Time
Nearly two weeks after finishing the drive from the Midwest to Fairbanks, I find myself marveling at the photos my wife Gosia snapped. Each turn of the Alaska Highway brought a new peak to admire. I stood beneath a couple high-risers and risked falling over backwards...
The Iceman Cometh and he be me
Like all of you, I finished tons of art projects while in grade school. After we finished, my fellow students decorated the classroom walls with their masterpieces. Unfortunately, the teacher always said, “You can take yours home.” I figured the nuns believed I lived...
Requiem for a toy soldier
This week’s Fairbanks Daily News Miner's editorial board decision to address Alaska’s poor record on keeping up with essential childhood disease vaccinations sent me back to the archives of the News-Miner from 1953 to 1955. Massive fear about the disease among the...
FDNM Golden Heart Tales: David Eastman’s immodest proposal by Hank Nuwer Feb 22, 2023
Here is an oldie from Feb. 22, 2023 ‘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...
Helen Atkinson: What an Alaskan Lady
My office wall at the News-Miner was mostly bare except for a calendar in Polish. This past week I purchased a low-budget painting of a cabin in the woods signed by watercolorist Helen Atkinson. The artist was born Helen Linck in 1915. Her birthplace was Gold Road,...
Pride cometh before a snowfall
The road to sourdough from cheechako received another setback Thursday. My snowplow guy had not yet cleaned my driveway, but somehow, I made my little Jeep barrel over ice and deep snow right up to the garage door. Right that moment, I felt pride. And we all know what...
Consider the. outhouse…many, many moons ago
I see that the News-Miner web page carries an ad for a calendar with outhouse photos. Outhouses on both western New York boyhood farms of my grandparents were hardly a photographic attraction. My German grandfather stocked real toilet paper in his outhouse. My Polish...