Tag: Features

Ben Swesey: More to the story — Part 1

More than a hundred years after Ben Swesey and Bill Weaver steered an outboard-powered dory out of Resurrection Bay and were never seen again, an American video broadcaster included a segment about their disappearance on his YouTube channel. David Paulides, whose Missing 411 series boasts nearly a half-million subscribers, sat before shelves of labeled three-ring […]

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The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site — Part 7

AUTHOR’S NOTE: After the agricultural experiment station in Kenai closed May 1, 1908, Alaska station supervisor C.C. Georgeson had to decide the fate of the infrastructure at the decade-old facility. On May 1, 1908, Prof. Charles Christian Georgeson, supervisor of all agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, officially and “temporarily” closed the Kenai Station, which had […]

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Whimsy and magic

This is my last week working in the preschool. The decision to leave was not a hasty one, and was not brought on by upset or dissatisfaction, but was just the next step in my plan. I know sometimes it is necessary to make big sacrifices in the name of growth, but still, this one […]

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