“An Alaskan Moment” for March 14th, 2022
Download or Stream “An Alaskan Moment” for the week of March 14th, 2022.
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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:
March 14, 1974 – Wesley Ladd was indicted for the kidnapping and first degree murder of John F. Rich. John Rich was an Anchorage underworld entrepreneur who owned PJ’s strip club, gambling dens & massage parlors throughout the city. His daughter Kim Rich wrote the book “Johnny’s Girl” about growing up as the daughter of an Alaskan gangster.
March 15, 1916 – The Bering River and Matanuska coal reserves were proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson.
March 16, 1901 – Treadwell, on Douglas Island, was incorporated as a first class city.
March 17, 1912 – The U.S. Marines, withdrew from Sitka where a contingent had been stationed since 1879.
March 18, 1918 – The Wilson & Sylvester sawmill at Wrangell, the largest mill in Alaska, burned.
March 19, 1963 – The former Revenue Cutter Bear, famed for her long service in northern waters, sank in the Atlantic while under tow.
March 20, 1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman ever to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska.
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“An Alaskan Moment” is produced at Aleutian Peninsula Broadcasting in Sand Point
Music by Paul Holmberg
With help from you, the supporters of Public Radio.
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Now for your poem.
Today’s poem is found on the phonograph “Centennial Collection of Alaska Poetry”, produced by the Anchorage Centennial Commission, 1967.
“Because He Flew”
by Patricia Polsky