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.
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This week in Alaska History:
June 7, 1942 - Japanese troops landed on Attu Island in the Aleutians and made prisoners of the Aleut residents and a school teacher and his wife. They were unopposed by American forces.
June 8, 1957 - Michael Anthony Stepovich was sworn in at Juneau as the 15th and last appointed governor of Alaska.
June 9, 1947 - The Farwest Fisheries Company cannery at Wrangell was destroyed in a $150,000 fire.
June 10, 1883 - Explorer Frederick Schwatka started over the Dyea Trail on his way to start his examination of the Yukon River.
June 11, 1913 - The 668-ton iron-hulled steamer Yukon was wrecked on Sanak Island during a fog. Her 3 passengers and 42 crew members were rescued by Revenue Cutter Tahoma
June 12, 1924 - President Calvin Coolidge created the Sitka National Cemetery by executive order.
June 13, 1898 - The Fort Egbert military reservation was established on the outskirts of the town of Eagle on the Yukon River.
This week in Alaska History compiled by Robert N. DeArmond of Sitka
Courtesy of the Alaska Historical Society
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"An Alaskan Moment" is produced at Aleutian Peninsula Broadcasting in Sand Point
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Music by Paul Holmberg
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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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