Hank Nuwer
My birthday weekend in Cordova
For my wife Gosia’s recent birthday, I bought a floral bouquet and, trying to be creative, a black-and-tan Louie’s Lunch Bucket from Duluth Trading...
The Coal mutiny
If the citizens of Cordova of 1911 were to adopt a slogan, it might be “Take this coal and shove it.”
And shove it or,...
Flying the unfriendly skies
Although I fly frequently, I don’t know any unruly passengers.
Except one, I admit.
Me.
This incident occurred the time I boarded a flight to Minneapolis and...
An Alaskan cold case remains unsolved after 84 years
McNeil Island prisoner William Dempsey was one of three convicts on a road gang who escaped the Washington State prison in 1940.
Dempsey and...
A victim accuses his killer before dying
A miner from Greece lay mortally wounded in the brush in Cordova on Sept. 27, 1914.
The victim called out to a startled passerby.
“I’ll give...
President Harding’s visit to Childs Glacier
President Warren Gamaliel Harding rose from newspaper editor in Marion, Ohio, to a “front porch” president after easily winning the 1920 election.
Harding embarked on...
A calling to the wild: Bishop Peter T. Rowe
When The Right Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe died in British Columbia at age 85 in 1942, his thousands of friends and admirers in Alaska...
The Danish Jack London
A letter to The Cordova Daily ran on June 7, 1921. The writer alerted readers that he had written a novel titled “Alaska Man’s...
A cup of coffee in the Big Leagues
The date was June 14, 1925. The Rhinelanders of Cincinnati showed up this Flag Day to cheer on their Reds against the Brooklyn Robins.
This...
The curious case of the mail-order bride
Martha Whitworth was the daughter of a Louisville, Kentucky teamster and staunch Republican named John Whitworth. In 1892, she married physician Charles Whitworth Vimont,...
