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Farewell to Papa Bob
I like this picture of my dad a lot -- taken a few years back now-- it shows Papa Bob with a lot of us-- and he's in great form. He was in pretty good form Christmas Eve, too. He'd showered and shaved, put on clean jeans and a red Christmas sweater. He mixed a Bloody...
Alaska Dispatch Column is Back
No doubt you were wondering why I haven't mentioned the Lighting of the Library. That's because my new column about it is in the Alaska Dispatch. The weekly column about small-town Alaskan life is back. Read it here. (My guess is it will run each Tuesday, but I'll let...
Gold Rush Alaska, A Local Review
The first episode of ten in the first TV series to be filmed in Haines wasn't as bad as we had expected. Haines looked good, and the only local guy in it, truck driver Donny Braaten, represented us well. Last summer the Discovery Channel filmed the Hoffman family...
Sunday’s Thought
So much to tell you about next week-- watching Gold Rush Alaska with friends and the Lighting of the Fort in the worst weather ever. The choir sang outside, knee deep in snow amidst torrential slush. But first, a little day of rest from my desk for me, and Sunday's...
Singing Together With One Voice
Susie was on the radio yesterday afternoon, in full Texas twang. She's from Philadelphia but her heart is in Texas, or was, it is in Alaska now, where she noted as she read the weather forecast, that what we lack in length of daylight we make up for in quality....
Pizza Joe, Me, and the Snow Dragon on YouTube
Pizza Joe's lovely wife Holly Jo and a friend made this short video for YouTube that shows the Haines Snow Dragon being put together in the Elks Lodge before the parade a couple years ago, and me and Pizza Joe (he's the head of the dragon, I was the smoke that year)...
An Alaskan Reality Show I’ll Watch
Here's an Alaska reality show I'll watch. (Okay, I do like Deadliest Catch, in small doses.) They call is Gold Rush Alaska, and it was filmed in Haines last summer. It's about some would-be gold miners working a claim up in the Porcupine near John Schnabel's mine and...