Mar 15, 2022 | Left Out Stories
Atlin Humor If you have noticed, in order to survive and even thrive in the isolated rugged North Country, it’s best to have a great sense of humor. In Atlin, the Fun Days entertainment, Halloween and The Dominion Day parade are all good examples. My mom had a great...
Mar 8, 2022 | Reviews & Recommendations
81 Days Below Zero Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou Da Capo Press 2016 Shortly before Christmas 1943, a doomed test flight took off from Ladd Field near Fairbanks, Alaska. Faulty instruments gave bad readings and the weather did the rest. Only one man survived the...
Mar 7, 2022 | Reviews & Recommendations
The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement Dan O’Neill Saint Martin’s Press 1994 In 1958, Edward Teller, the father of the H bomb, wanted to explode six megaton atomic bombs on the coast of NW Alaska, only a few miles...
Feb 21, 2022 | Reviews & Recommendations
Ordinary Wolves Seth Kantner Milkweed Editions 2005 Seth Katner’s first offering, a novel Ordinary Wolves, hits hard and fast and pulls no punches. A story of a white boy growing up in a sod hut on the banks of a river in Arctic Alaska. Not sure where he fits in in...
Feb 19, 2022 | Left Out Stories
The Atlin Security Blanket Atlin News Miner Diane Smith – Aug 24, 1972 Everyone has heard of the physiological security blanket. It is the end result of behavior motivation which leads to saving something, be it money or stale sourdoughs, thus creating a shield...
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