by Lisa Alexia | Feb 8, 2021 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Ryktheu is from a remote Northern village, near AlaskaYuri Rytkheu wrote stories that reflected the perspective of thousands of years of human evolution compressed over the course of his lifetime. Rural Alaskans will find much to appreciate in his books, because so...
by Amber Webb | Oct 26, 2020 | Our Communities, Our Health: Body, Mind & Spirit
Artist/author Amber Webb describes her work above as “Sketching the story of how the Spanish Flu pandemic hit Bristol Bay in 1919 and changed the region. The map is about Goodnews Bay to the edge of Nushagak Bay. It also includes the lakes. Not a very accurate...
by Corinna Cook | Jul 25, 2020 | Our Communities, Our Health: Body, Mind & Spirit, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Editor’s Note: This review of Under Nushagak Bluff by Mia C. Heavener, is part one of two posts about pandemics in rural Alaska. Both posts feature creative responses from surviving descendants of the 1918 flu pandemic in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Historical notes...
by Lisa Alexia | Dec 2, 2019 | Our Backyard, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Update: Podcast with author of Floating CoastBathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, visited Alaska during the penultimate period of time before COVID-19 shut down most travel. During her stay in Anchorage, she spoke...
by Lisa Alexia | Nov 19, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Salmonberries: An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 3 Julia Phillips is a National Book Award Finalist! (Note as this post goes live: Julia Phillips is a National Book Award Finalist for her debut novel Disappearing Earth. Winners will be announced November 20,...