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Southeast in Sepia: The Dyea townsite
Dyea was one of the major towns to grow into prominence as a result of the Klondike gold…
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Alaska For Real: The ladders of bush living
I’ve been watching my dad build ladders for most of my life. With a handsaw, that almost seems…
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Planet Alaska: Living the Dream
For those of you that may have missed our introduction article, your hosts at Planet Alaska are a…
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Summer boating: Adrift, aground, flipped, sunk
It was a sunny beautiful day and my parents and I took my brother Jamie’s little boys, Sterling…
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Fish Factor: Tiny cod fish reappearing around Kodiak
Tiny cod fish are reappearing around Kodiak.
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Southeast in Sepia: Mollie Brackett’s lost photo album
Mollie’s album gives us precious glimpses into the past, like personal letters and diaries. They show us the…
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Alaska for Real: The best of childhoods
There is continuity between generations of rural Alaskans that defies time and the state’s vast distances. This was…
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Southeast in Sepia: Finding ‘A Day in Skagway’
My column today is how a little bit of the area’s history dropped into our respective laps one…
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Fish Factor: Fish by the numbers
Sockeye salmon catches often add up to half of the value of Alaska’s total salmon fishery, and the…
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Southeast in Sepia: Finding ‘A Day in Skagway’
My column today is how a little bit of the area’s history dropped into our respective laps one…
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Planet Alaska: My father’s smokehouse
Kaachxaana.áak’w, (Kaachxan’s Little Lake) is the Tlingit name for Wrangell Alaska, where my fishcamp is located. Kaachxan was…
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Alaska for Real: Lessons learned at the end of the world
When I signed the book deal to write a memoir about my childhood growing up in the burned…
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Writers’ Weir: Silence and secret-keeping in a small Alaska town
This is a reader submitted work of nonfiction. The Capital City Weekly accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and…
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Salmonberry season has arrived
I love salmonberry season. In the Tlingit language we call them was’x’aan tléigu. I know they aren’t everyone’s…
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Writers’ Weir: Jigging for Halibut
This is a work of fiction. The Capital City Weekly accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. To…
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Being local, and local-ish
I used to get a little territorial when it came to non-locals descending on Prince of Wales. Ironic,…
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Alaska for Real: Casting the Panhandle
When my brother Jamie Neilson pulled up to the dock in Meyers Chuck I stepped out to shake…
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Real Music: A decade of songwriting
If you want to be a professional musician, 90 percent of what you will do will not be…