Melting the Ice Curtain: The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier I can still see the smiling man with the movie star tan waving from the back seat of a white convertible as the crowd thundered: “Ken-a-DEE, Ken-a-DEE.” My mother had pulled me from first grade for my first campaign rally: […]
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Determined to finish a story I began a few years ago, set in my hometown of Butte, Montana, I had no idea where it would lead. What began as memoir has morphed into a historical fiction novel, with fictitious characters based on real people and events. I’ve always wanted to write a story with Butte
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Kathia Diamant is visiting Anchorage Sept. 24 – 28, 2016 through an author exchange program sponsored by Adventures by the Book. In partnership with the Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers is featuring these visiting authors in workshops at the AWG conference on Saturday, Sept. 24 and also at a members-only salon event on Sunday, Sept. 25 (details here). Prenzlauer
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Mary Catharine Martin cooks dinner along the Nisutlin River in the Yukon in September 2014. (Photo: Bjorn Dihle) Six years ago this summer, I hiked up Juneau’s Granite Creek Basin with my partner Bjorn, looking for berries. It was my first season of gathering in Alaska, and everything about it was thrilling. Red, yellow, and
It is a common complaint of my partner that I make a mess of our shared home office—and to be fair, she’s totally right. My half of the room is covered in stacks of books, papers, clippings, and tape, not only on the desk itself, but in concentric rings around it; her desk bears only
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In the first half of the 1800s hand-woven Navajo blankets were typically coarsely woven and very plain. They featured the natural color of sheep wool with perhaps a contrasting stripe or two at the edges. During the last half of the 1800s Navajo weavings (increasingly smaller carpets rather than blankets) were frequently high quality,
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I processed the last half of the LaVerne Harrell Clark Photographic Collection during my last term of graduate school in library science. LaVerne took photographs of authors and her collection was donated to the University of Arizona Poetry Center after she passed. Collections of writers’ personal papers and manuscripts are often found in archives. In
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In the second of a series of six posts to help writers make good use of archival materials, Erin Wahl explains how to find what you want in an archives. Archives and special collections can be confusing places for researchers. We do things a bit differently than a “normal” library. We have a different set
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