“An Alaskan Moment” for November 2nd, 2020
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Today is Monday, November 2nd, 2020
Welcome to
“An Alaskan Moment”
from Aleutian Peninsula Broadcasting in Sand Point
This week in Alaska History:
November 2, 1920 – Anchorage residents voted 328 to 130 to incorporate as a first class city.
November 3, 1942 – Construction crews building the Alaska Highway from the north and south met at “break through,” 20 miles east of the Alaska boundary.
November 4, 1884 – The first U.S. District Court was formally organized at Sitka.
November 5, 1912 – An election selected 24 members, 8 in the Senate, 16 in the House, for the first Territorial Legislature
November 6, 1940 – An entire block, including the post office and a hotel, were destroyed by fire at McCarthy.
November 7, 1938 – Construction began on a long awaited small boat harbor at Juneau.
November 8, 1955 – The Alaska Constitutional Convention convened on the campus of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
November 9, 1929 – Carl Ben Eielsen and Earl Borland were killed when their plane was wrecked in Siberia.
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Now for your poem.
Sheila Nickerson was named Poet Laureate of Alaska in 1977.
She served as writer-in-residence for the State of Alaska Artists-in-the-Schools program, was writer-in-residence at the Alaska State Library, and was co-founder of University Within Walls, a statewide prison education program.
She was also editor of Alaska’s Wildlife, a magazine published by the State of Alaska Department of Fish & Game.
The following piece comes from “Hunger and Dreams: The Alaskan Womens Anthology”. Published by Fireweed Press, 1983