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 22, 1952 - Fire that started about 10:30 pm on the 21st destroyed much of downtown Wrangell.

March 23, 1933 - Governor George A. Parks signed into law the bill repealing the Alaska Bone Dry law.

March 24, 1989 - The Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, ultimately spilling 260,000 barrels of North Slope oil.

March 25, 1927 - E. Coke Hill took office as U.S District Judge for the Third Judicial Division, headquartered at Valdez.

March 26, 1958 - The "White Alice" communication system began operation.

March 27, 1964 - At 5:36 pm the Good Friday earthquake, which registered more than 8 on the Richter scale, rocked southcentral Alaska. The quake released approximately twice the energy of the 1906 San Francisco quake. It killed 115 people in Alaska and more than a dozen others in California and Oregon.

March 28, 1898 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture established an experimental station at Kodiak.

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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