Ketchikan, Alaska waited a long time for a new library, 112 years to be exact, as the oldest continuously operating library in the state had never had a home of its own. Throughout its history the little library had been housed in random municipal buildings that got progressively larger, but none was designed for use…
Friday, January 25, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. we celebrated—with a Hawaii-themed party—the library’s tenth birthday in the new building. In the middle of winter, it felt great to get out the leis and grass skirts, gather the ukulele players in town and learn to…
Nola May Andress, 96, died peacefully at her home in Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 9, 2012, of natural causes. She was born in Dupont, Indiana April 16, 1916. On October 20, 1945, she married Kenneth Andress and they traveled by train and steamboat to Alaska.…
University of Alaska Press Steven A. Jacobson is the author of many books on the Yup’ik language, including A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo Language and the Yup’ik Dialect Atlas and Study, and he has contributed to others, including the Comparative Eskimo…
Compiled by Patience Frederiksen The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman, 2012, is as gorgeous a book as you will ever read. The prose is so delicious you want to savor every word like a piece of good chocolate. The bulk of the story takes…