“An Alaskan Moment” for January 10th, 2022
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Welcome to
“An Alaskan Moment”
A “moment” is a measure of time… 90 seconds.
“An Alaskan Moment” lasts a little longer.
Sometimes twice as much.
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This week in Alaska History:
January 10, 1882 – The name of the first post office on Gastineau Channel (and today’s state capital) was changed from Harrisburgh to Juneau.
January 11, 1937 – Nell Scott of Seldovia became the first woman in Alaska’s legislature.
January 12, 1878 – Charles E. Bunnell was born in Pennsylvania. On this date in 1915 he took office as U.S. District Judge in Fairbanks and later became the first president of what is now the University of Alaska.
January 13, 1946 – The Anchorage Daily News was established with Norman Brown as editor and publisher.
January 14, 1869 – Commander Richard W. Meade, in command of the USS Saginaw, burned a number of Kake villages.
January 15, 1959 – The Chugach Electric Association announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on Knik Arm near Anchorage. It was never built.
January 16, 1874 – Robert Service was born in Preston, England. In the first decade of the 20th century he lived in Dawson, Yukon Territory and inked many popular poems telling of the wonder, beauty, and harshness of the Far North.
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“An Alaskan Moment” is produced at Aleutian Peninsula Broadcasting in Sand Point
Music by Paul Holmberg
With help from you, the supporters of Public Radio.
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Now for your poem.
Today’s poem is found on Johnny Cash’s 92nd album, “Personal File”.
“The Cremation of Sam McGee”
by Robert Service