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...
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