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.
Ill Met by Moonlight: Charles Wason and the Cornell Fraternity Hazing Death.
By Hank Nuwer: The details and facts in this essay were taken from testimony delivered by members of KAS on October 12 and October 16, 1873, at a two-day coroner’s inquest in Ithaca, New York,. Charles Wason.. Mortimer Marcellus Leggett arrived at Cornell...
A Hazing Death: Human Rights and the Constitutional Right to Remain Silent.
Carl Dingens (team photo), Row Two, Blonde hair, second from right Carl L. Dingens, Cornell 1896: Carl Louis Dingens died in Buffalo on April 30, 1927..He was born in Buffalo March 22, 1873, the son of Joseph A. and Julia G. Dingens. He attended Canisius School...
Casey Dog’s Story
July 18, 2026 I was cleaning out my digital files today and came across an unpublished column (I pretended was) written by my dog Casey. Casey died in 2019. I miss him still. I dated and then married my wife Gosia. Before Casey, she had been afraid of dogs. Before...
Review: Collier’s Magazine’s reboot sputters. But there’s hope for Issue Two.
By Hank Nuwer Collier’s magazine once flourished as one of the most-read publications in America. Kurt Vonnegut fans celebrate the tale of his discovery by Collier’s fiction editor Knox Burger. Publishing a story in Collier’s encouraged Vonnegut to keep writing–even...
A bit of turbulence: On the Ground
Flying the Unfriendly Skies By Hank Nuwer Stories of unruly passengers causing airline pilots to take unscheduled forced landings seem to make headlines more frequently. We read about miscreants doing all sorts of tomfoolery and dangerous acts: storming a...
Flashback: Spending Thanksgiving During the Pandemic, 2020
Let’s Talk Wild Turkey Today Hank Nuwer (First published, Thanksgiving 2020) No use of you and me complaining but Thanksgiving just won’t be the same this year. Rising numbers of Covid cases in Darke County, Ohio and Randolph County,...
The Great Greenville Peacock Plumage Caper
By Hank Nuwer, with photo by Goosia Nuwer Daily Advocate - June 9, 2022 0 Female peafowl are peahens. Male peafowl are peacocks. People who molest the birds are peabrains. This tearful tale of tail-feather thievery began late in the night of...
Indiana history: Union City’s Crown Jewel: The Carnegie Library
By Hank Nuwer, Archives “Books…are like TV for smart people,” actor Robert Redford declares in the film “A Walk in the Woods.” “Would you say you grew up poor?” “Oh, we grew up poor. But not impoverished.” “What’s the difference?” “The library.” — Pete Hamill...
A no-good skunk lit out for Nebraska. That skunk wasn’t hard to locate
By Hank Nuwer Fasten your seatbelt, reader. This is the story of George Washington Clear, born in 1849, the youngest son of Phillip and Mrs. Clear. On June 7, 1871, Clear married a young woman from Union City, IN, named Anna Moist. ...