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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 were profiled by CNN and People magazine.The “Gosiaandhank” team collaborated on an article about Alaskan road trips for Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine.
Hank recently reviewed a biography of Kurt Vonnegut by Charles J. Shields
Order direct 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
Podcast in The Culture
My new column is about an Alaska pioneering physician
My new column is about an Alaska pioneering physician who did great things but was accused and acquitted of heinous acts with children. Alaska’s Pioneering Doctor Mahlon Freeborn Hall By Hank Nuwer While miners aplenty lived in Alaska during the early years of the...
They never did bring in William Dempsey, alive or dead
McNeil Island prisoner William Dempsey was one of three convicts on a road gang who escaped the Washington State prison in 1940. Dempsey and two other road-gang prisoners took advantage of dense fog conditions on January 30, 1940 to attempt a getaway from the...
The Stateline Jewel
By Hank Nuwer “Books…are like TV for smart people,” actor Robert Redford declares in the film “A Walk in the Woods.” Patrons from Union City, Indiana and Darke County, Ohio have borrowing privileges few border communities can boast. Any Darke County resident...
March 23, 2025 at 9 p.m.
Went out to Pleasant Valley toward Chena Hot Springs for a long drive after Strike! in hopes of seeing wildlife. Gosia spotted a nice red fox and a female moose. Ugh, I was driving and missed both critters!!!! The Alaskan scenic colors at 9 p.m. in fading light were...
Profile of Hank Nuwer at the University of Alaska
Thank you to CLA for your coverage. Photos and story at below link https://www.uaf.edu/cla/news/2025/weight-of-power.php The Weight of Power Kade Mendelowitz Hank Nuwer as Harry Fatt (left), Kyle Moore as Joe and Faith Burns as Edna in Waiting for Lefty during...
When a killer disease swamped Alaska and its villages
from the Cordova Times, March 21, 2025 When Flu Fears Raged in Alaska By Hank Nuwer The Cordova Times in 1920 addressed a nasty flu outbreak that resulted in deaths all over Alaska from 1918 to 1920. Similar outbreaks in Seattle, Chicago and New York resulted in many...
Excited about new UAF musical
Thank you to University of Alaska for this nice profile in time four our musical strike in March 2025. https://www.uaf.edu/cla/news/2025/weight-of-power.php he Weight of Power Kade Mendelowitz Hank Nuwer as Harry Fatt (left), Kyle Moore as Joe and Faith Burns as Edna...
The Man Behind the Stutz
by Hank Nuwer Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald won acclaim for two novels. The first was “This Side of Paradise” in 1920. It was a semi-autobiographical novel about a Princeton student who chases fleshly pleasures like the rest of his Lost Generation. The second was the...
From Felon to Hero to Accused Criminal again: Floyd Andrew DeHay, aka Frank Dorbrandt
Daredevil of the Skies, Floyd Andrew DeHay, aka Frank Dorbrandt By Hank Nuwer Alaska’s wide spaces, upper-level win currents, and landing fields in questionable condition made flying in pioneer days before World War Two required pilots with uncommon skill, guts and...