Vonnegut Bio; Hank Nuwer Stories
Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of Hank Nuwer with photos of Alaska and its wildlife by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer.
You’ll find that I’ve added some finished and partially finished biography-in-progress of Kurt Vonnegut, “The Man in the Hole.”
Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing. Podcast in The Culture
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” with Hank Nuwer
Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.
Hank Nuwer, PO Box 73446; Fairbanks, AK 99707-3446.
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...
A need to remove a threat to salmon
It’s a story as old as the story of human progress. A new discovery or innovation heralded for its efficacy is suspected to have harmful effects that require ingenuity on the part of researchers to find an antidote to the unintended causes. I consider it compelling...
A classroom runs through the farm
Far from Randolph County: A classroom runs through the farm Hank Nuwer, now with the Winchester News-Gazette long distance. His column is called "Far from Randolph County". https://www.winchesternewsgazette.com/ Chances are when you were back in school, one of your...
A time for friendship and unity at a time of world conflict
My thoughts this weekend rested on time spent living and writing in Randolph County, Indiana and our neighbors in Union City, Indiana. Among many things I like about the area is its strong Quaker mystique. I recall being so surprised to learn that Quaker men and women...
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Magical Ride to Wrangell, Alaska’s Rainbow Falls & Petroglyph Beach
GOLDEN HEART TALES TRAVEL Somewhere over the rainbow ... A visit to the scenic falls of Wrangell WRANGELL, ALASKA — Over time, I’ve tried to visit as many of Alaska’s small cities and villages as possible in short bursts of three-day stays. In that...
Misadventures of a Short-Term Expatriate
Seven to nine years ago, I commuted from the U.S. to Poland to court my now-wife Gosia, and she did the same in reverse, meeting me by turns in Alaska and Indiana. We were good friends for two years before getting hitched, although I assure you that we both were...
Keeping the community in a community hospital
For someone with one of the most important mover-and-shaker positions in Fairbanks, Shelley Ebenel certainly looks relaxed as she arrives early for a meeting with the Daily News-Miner in a fifth-floor conference room. She opined that she rather likes the weather and...
The movie wasn’t so hot
Soon after I turned 18 and secured my driver license, I asked a pal named Mary to go to a drive-in movie with me. It was my first time, and I begged my father to use his brand new ’65 Ford. Other friends told me wild drive-in stories. Some stuffed other friends into...