“An Alaskan Moment” for January 25th, 2021
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A “moment” is a measure of time… 90 seconds.
“An Alaskan Moment” lasts a little longer.
Sometimes twice as much.
Every Monday morning.
This week in Alaska History:
January 25, 1959 – Alaska’s first indoor artificially heated swimming pool opened in Fairbanks.
January 26, 1959 – The first Alaska State Legislature convened at Juneau.
January 27, 1925 – The first dog team left Nenana to relay serum to Nome to fight a diphtheria epidemic. The serum reached Nome on February 4.
January 28, 1940 – Half of the town of Candle was destroyed by fire.
January 29, 1914 – Juneau Camp No. 4 of the Alaska Native Brotherhood was organized in the Native school house.
January 30, 1920 – Fire destroyed the plant of the Daily Alaska Citizen at Fairbanks.
January 31, 1956 – General John Noyes, head of the Alaska National Guard, died at Nome as a result of a plane crash.
This week in Alaska History compiled by Robert N. DeArmond of Sitka
Courtesy of the Alaska Historical Society
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Now for your poem.
Today’s poem is found in the book “Hunger & Dreams: The Alaskan Women’s Anthology”, edited by Patricia Monaghan. Published by Fireweed Press, Fairbanks, 1983.
“Fish Story”
by Katherine McNamara
