“An Alaskan Moment” for March 15th, 2021
Download or Stream “An Alaskan Moment” for the week of March 15th, 2021.
https://apradio.org/mp3/aam/2021-03-15-analaskanmoment.mp3
A “moment” is a measure of time… 90 seconds.
“An Alaskan Moment” lasts a little longer.
Sometimes twice as much.
From Aleutian Peninsula Broadcasting in Sand Point.
This week in Alaska History:
March 15, 1916 – The Bering River and Matanuska coal reserves were proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson.
March 16, 1901 – Treadwell, on Douglas Island, was incorporated as a first class city.
March 17, 1912 – The U.S. Marines, withdrew from Sitka where a contingent had been stationed since 1879.
March 18, 1918 – The Wilson & Sylvester sawmill at Wrangell, the largest mill in Alaska, burned.
March 19, 1963 – The former Revenue Cutter Bear, famed for her long service in northern waters, sank in the Atlantic while under tow.
March 20, 1861 – Wilds P. Richardson, the first president of the Alaska Road Commission (1905 to 1917), was born in Texas.
March 21, 1913 – Governor Walter E. Clark approved the first act of the first Territorial Legislature, giving Alaska women the right to vote.
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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 in Fairbanks, 1983.
“Leavetaking”
by Joanne Townsend
Credits:
– Paul Holmberg for the music.
– Austin Roof’s Media Class students from the Sand Point School.
– V. Porter of apradio.org.