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Moving with muktuk: Planet Alaska relocates to Juneau
A new adventure in the new year.
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Frank La Roche, Skagway’s first professional photographer
We’re fortunate that photographers were active in this area during and after the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Salmonberry vinaigrette and cranberry ketchup: Here’s how to infuse traditional Alaska Native foods into your holiday dinner
With the holiday season coming up, we wanted to remind you of the local foods and recipes you…
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Southeast in Sepia: Skaguay’s First and Second Elections
Elections have always been a part of our lives.
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Planet Alaska: Muskeg Love
Muskeg life is wet, mushy, juicy, fleshy, tangy, glabrous, globose and glandular.
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Alaska for Real: Case lot stock up
At this time of the year stores offer big sales and the market in Thorne Bay across the…
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The Eternal Quest of Floathouse Dwellers
When you live in a floathouse in SE Alaska for over twenty years you develop vision not dissimilar…
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Planet Alaska: Highbush Cranberries and Traditional Values
Berry picking for us is a family event with several generations harvesting together.
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Sweat and driftwood: Building from scratch
It’s difficult to get building materials such as siding and roofing out in the wilderness, so when my…
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Hoonah’s second annual culture camp weaves tradition into everyday life
The first week of July, over 60 community members and nearly 150 people of all ages boarded cars,…
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Alaska For Real: That shipwreck guy
If you live out in the wilderness in Southeast Alaska you will continually come across evidence of shipwrecks,…
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Southeast in Sepia: Skagway tourism
Tourism in Southeast Alaska dates back to the 1880s with cruises up the Inside Passage to see the…
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Alaska for Real: The ferry way
The ferry crewmember shared a conspiratorial smile with me as we crept up on the lounge. We peeked…
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Fish Factor: Shellfish and seafood businesses growing
As Gov. Bill Walker prepares to sign a bill this week enacting the Alaska Mariculture Development Plan, 16…
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Real Music: Tony Tengs finds new songwriting inspiration in retirement
Tony Tengs employs the double negative when it comes to his relationship with songwriting. He can’t not think…