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.

Every Monday morning. 

This week in Alaska History:

March 1, 1879 - HMS Osprey arrived at Sitka from Victoria, B.C., in response to a call for help inspired by fear of an Indian uprising. The ship remained at Sitka until the arrival of the USS Alaska on April 3.

March 2, 1903 - Congress appropriated $485,000 for a submarine telegraph cable from Seattle to Sitka and Juneau.

March 3, 1913 - The first Alaska Territorial Legislature convened in the Elks Lodge building at Juneau. Twenty - three members met that day. One elected member, from the Fairbanks district, failed to appear during the session.

March 4, 1915 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the Alaska School Lands bill turning over to the Territory sections 16 and 36 of all surveyed townships.

March 5, 1959 - The "Detroit '59ers," more than fifty families from Michigan motored out
of Detroit toward Alaska with the intent to homestead on the Kenai Peninsula.

March 6, 1973 - Voters went to the polls to choose between Emil Notti and Don Young to replace U.S. Representative Nick Begich, who had been killed in a plane accident.

March 7, 1988 - Vern Tejas of Anchorage completed the first solo ascent of Mt. McKinley.

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 "A Good Crew: An Alaskan Men's
Anthology", edited by Roland Wilbert and Larry Laraby. 

Published by Fireweed Press in Fairbanks, 1986.

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