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 29, 1867 - Russian Minister to the U.S. Edouard de Stoeckl appeared at U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward's home to inform him that the Czar had wired approval of a treaty for the American purchase of Alaska.

March 30, 1916 - Delegate James Wickersham introduced in Congress the first bill providing for statehood for Alaska.

March 31, 1915 - A bill placing a $10 bounty on wolves was signed into law by Governor John Strong.

April 1, 1869 - The first public school in Alaska under the American flag was opened in a log building at Sitka. The teacher, Miss Addie Messer, was paid $50 a month.

April 2, 1935 - Juneau-Fairbanks air service was inaugurated by Pacific-Alaska Airways.

April 3, 1898 - A snowslide at Sheep Camp on the Chilkoot Trail killed 43 men.

April 4, 1911 - A large business block in Iditarod was destroyed by fire.

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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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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