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 8, 1960 - The state legislature passed a bill permitting non - profit organizations to operate games of chance.

March 9, 1911 - Fire in Douglas destroyed a large section of the business district.

March 10, 1959 - The Alaska House of Representatives voted to give the governor of the new state a salary of $25,000 a year.

March 11, 1942 - The SS Mount McKinley, 4,861 tons, and carrying military cargo, was wrecked at Scotch Cap, Unimak Pass.

March 12, 1914 - President Woodrow Wilson signed into law a bill providing for a government railroad in Alaska. The Alaska Railroad created by this legislation is now owned by the State of Alaska.

March 13, 1968 - Atlantic Richfield and Humble Oil announced their Prudhoe Bay discovery well.

March 14, 1929 - International Airways inaugerated air passenger service between Seattle and Alaska.

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 in Fairbanks, 1983.

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