907 Updates April 24, 2025

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Here’s the video of today’s meteor viewed streaking across the Anchorage sky around 10:30 this morning!Here’s the video of today’s meteor viewed streaking across the Anchorage sky around 10:30 this morning! https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/04/24/video-fireball-streaks-across-alaska-skies/

Only In Alaska: The Iconic Trail in Alaska Everyone Should Hike Once in Their Lifetime

KTOO: Tongass Voices: Author Tessa Hulls on feeding her family’s ghosts

Daily Stka Sentinel: Blessing of Fleet Slated for May 4

KTUU: It’s official! She has a big mouth Jaw-dropping world record broken by Alaska woman

Your Alaska Link: Three crowned in Miss & Mrs. Alaska America 2025 pageant night

Criminal Elemet: The Dark Side of Our National Parks by A.J. Landau, author of Cold Burn

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leonardo, michelangelo, and paper -- 4/24/25 April 24, 2025
Today's encore selection -- from Paper by Mark Kurlansky. Paper made its first appearance in Europe in the 11th century, but was expensive and suffered from poor quality. By the 15th century, it was inexpensive and of good quality, and that dramatically changed the level of Renaissance art: "Paper created a monumental shift in European […]
owls can hunt by sound --4/23/25 April 23, 2025
Today's encore selection -- from What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman. Owls can hunt in complete darkness by using their extraordinary hearing: “Roger Payne was the first to show that barn owls can hunt their prey in complete darkness using only sound. Payne is better known for his discovery of songs in Humpback Whales. […]

Recent Research Spreadsheets
Our students have compiled research in three topic areas. Below are the links to their research tables that can be downloaded for searching and viewing. For a state-by-state review of Mandatory Reporter laws, click here. For a state-by-state review of Background Check laws, click...
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Legislative Drafting Students
Our students spend the summer working on the research project of the LDICP. Through their extensive research, massive databases of information on state statutes regarding the abuse of children have been created and will be posted here as their work is finalized. Here are...
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Disillusionment Arc in Storytelling: A Powerful Tool for Character Growth – by K.M. Weiland… April 25, 2025
on Helping Writers become Authors: The Disillusionment Arc is one of the most powerful and emotionally resonant transformations a character can undergo. At its core, this arc is about awakening—shedding comforting illusions to face a stark and often uncomfortable Truth. While it shares similarities with the Positive Change Arc, the Disillusionment Arc doesn’t always lead […]
Chris The Story Reading Ape

Sunny Ann Starling, July 2, 1943 - January 6, 2023 January 10, 2023
All-American patriot, artist, designer, entrepreneur, flower arranger, chef, and joyful servant, Sunny Lou Starling, was carried on the wings of angels to the arms of her savior, Jesus Christ, on Friday, January 6, 2023. She once said her mission was to “Gather and feed all you can, as often as you can, because you never know if […]
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WASP Final Flight February 28, 2022
WASP Deanie Bishop Parrish, 44-W-4"Failure isn't failure unless you let it be. It's simply a change in direction. Just count your many blessings move on. With God's help, anything is possible!"Deanie Bishop Parrish passed away peacefully in her home in Waco, Texas, on February 24, 2022, just one day shy of her 100th birthday. She met every challenge […]
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Four Fun Kodachrome Car Image Series No. 519 October 30, 2024
Editors Note: After posting over five thousand features and twenty five thousand images over the last thirteen years, the time has come to end posting weekly features here on The Old Motor. At this point, the site’s future hasn’t been decided, although it will remain online for the foreseeable future. There may be future updates...
David Greenlees
Four Fun Kodachrome Car Image Series No. 518 October 23, 2024
In this weekly series, we ask our readers to tell us the year, make, and model of all of these vehicles along with the location where the image was taken and anything else you find of interest in the photos. You can look back on all the earlier parts of this series here. The photos are via Americar....
David Greenlees

Class Notes: 1964 March 27, 2025
Cucamonga, California, circa 1964. My piano teacher Mrs. Stewart, who seemed impossibly old when I was 8 years old 61 years ago, STILL seems impossibly old. Her equally old husband took a photo of her students every year with his big 1920s box camera; this is the only one of three that I still possess. […]
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Sweet Aloyse: 1943 March 27, 2025
A former beau of my late mother in law, Aloyse Aubrey; she did NOT marry him. I have forgotten his name, but the back of the photo says: "B-25c #42-64513, 'Rafisque' Army Air Base, Dakar, W. Africa, 4/26/43." It looks like this is one of the stops used to ferry bombers to the North African […]
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Sidewalk Smiles April 24, 2025
In reply to Louisville Sloggers: 1906: I love this picture for a little detail that high-resolution found -- a gaggle of happy people on a street-corner, caught in a moment. Thank you Shorpy for this!
Lem Smoot
Daughter of Famed Photographer Toni Frissell April 24, 2025
In reply to Bacon and Eggs: 1947: ... and one of the first woman photojournalists in WWII. https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9B02E1DF163AF... [Do we not realize that this information (and link) is already in the photo caption?? - Dave] We stand corrected.
Phare Pleigh

Hungarian Wax Peppers October 18, 2024
Here’s an old Italian recipe for canning peppers, one of my husband’s favorites. Searching the internet, you’ll come across many variations — all probably good — but here’s a basic recipe to start you on your course. The kids and I canned these using the boiling method, though pressure canners might make the process easier. Not sure how, […]
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Easy Microgreens June 13, 2023
Microgreens seem to be all the rage these days and for good reason: they are packed with nutrients and easy to grow! The USDA and University of Maryland found that leaves from microgreens had more nutrients than the mature leaves of the same plants. And great flavor. Plus, you don’t need a lot of space […]
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The Very Best Easter Recipes April 6, 2025
From the most perfectly glazed ham to sheet pan scalloped potatoes to the most decadent strawberries and cream french toast, planning your Easter menu could not be easier. We have a little bit of something for everyone in the family (and company) to enjoy year after year! 1 baked strawberries and cream french toast I […]
Chungah @ Damn Delicious
Slow Cooker Tortellini Soup March 22, 2025
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see our privacy policy for details. With crumbled sausage, tomatoes, pillowy cheese tortellini + leafy greens in a velvety, creamy broth. SO GOOD! It has been a very cold winter, and we are in dire need of some cozy, comforting goodness to warm us from the inside out […]
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New comic book tells tale of Civil War’s first Black Medal of Honor recipient April 24, 2025
As the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment stormed toward Fort Wagner, South Carolina, the soldier carrying the American flag fell. It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War. Charging with the 54th was Sgt. William Carney, who saw the colors fall. He picked up the flag and carried […]
Matt White
Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling April 24, 2025
The oft-maligned Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, may have found its true calling: chasing down smugglers. USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant LCS, recently stopped two suspected drug smuggling operations within 72 hours “through a combination of air and surface operations” while deployed to the Caribbean, according to the Navy. A Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment […]
Jeff Schogol

The Spain Wandering - Day 4: San Sebastian April 23, 2025
During our first breakfast at Rural Farmhouse Eketxe, the B&B where we're staying while near Hondarribia, we had us a visitor.We then drove over to the nearby town of San Sebastian primarily to find a bookstore that sold paper maps for trip planning. Having secured one, we wandered over to a nearby church: San Vicente.The […]
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The Spain Wandering - Days 2 and 3 April 22, 2025
Monday, April 21We visited the Guggenheim Modern Art Museum today. Quite the architectural wonder as you probably know. We didn't find the art work itself much to our plebeian tastes but some of it was eye-catching.First, some architecture views on our way back from breakfast at a nearby cafe:Our hotelSome of the stuff we saw […]
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American Exception March 7, 2025
Wow.As Blade said in the eponymous movie, “The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping. There is another world beneath it—the real world.”American Exception is about the real world.It is deeply researched, coherently presented, cogently argued. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll wonder how you ever could have believed that things are […]
Barry Eisler
Trump's True Sin Isn't What He Does. It's What He Is February 12, 2025
I think the primary reason Trump provokes such strong revulsion in some quarters is that he represents the id of the America empire—the hideous, capering truth that so much of our culture is designed to obscure.A few examples:“You’re going to take Gaza under what authority?”“Under the US authority.”This sounds terrible… but how is it different, […]
Barry Eisler

Kashevaroff Mountain April 6, 2019
Long before we were a sailing family, Alisa and I were a young couple in love with adventuring in Alaska. The opportunity to introduce Eric and Elias to the delights of outdoor living in the Great Land was one of the big bright sides of our return to Alaska. Earlier this winter, the boys and […]
Letting go March 20, 2019
So...this beautiful island is our home. See the barky? The boys just had their spring break. A week off from school and nothing to keep us from buggering off in Galactic. The weather was generally poor - nothing like the pics above for the most part - so we just snuck off to the west […]

PDS on PBS II Cross post from "Frozen Grin" April 5, 2024
Here is a link to a story about my struggle to draw with Parkinson's Disease. the story is from "The Daily Cartoonist" a Web journal concerning the world of professional cartooning. It was occasioned by the release of the documentary "Matters of Mind, My Parkinson's" which follows three families and their efforts to cope […]
Peter Dunlap-Shohl
Matter of Mind, My Parkinson's, PBS Looks at PD and PD-S March 4, 2024
Here is a short trailer for the PBS documentary "Matter of Mind, My Parkinson's. It follows the attempts of three people and their families to cope with the progressive, disabling and incurable neurological condition. The film won the Audience Choice Award for documentaries at the recent San Francisco Film Festival, possibly due to a scenery-chewing […]
Peter Dunlap-Shohl

Identifying Devil’s Club Plant August 10, 2023
Devil’s Club is a common wild plant in Alaska that’s large & covered in hidden sharp thorns, growing everywhere from remote forests to even well-groomed Anchorage city trails. Just because you’re “in town” doesn’t mean you won’t run into devil’s club. It’s smart to stay on the trails, particularly if you’re not confident spotting it. […]
Ashley
Pumpkin BOO-berry Muffins (Fun Halloween Toddler Snacktivity!) October 21, 2022
Here’s a delicious fall-time spin on classic blueberry muffins. If you’re a solo adult who likes good food, this recipe is for you. Or if you’ve got extra kitchen “helpers” around (read: kids who need entertainment), turn baking these Halloween muffins into a fun toddler snacktivity. Pumpkin BOO-berry Muffin Recipe Ingredients: 2 boxes Jiffy brand […]
Ashley

"Home" vs. "Away" May 20, 2022
I’m home now. I’m looking at the flea market couch I brought up from California; I had cushions made three times over the years till I got it just right. Now it’s just right. It’s been in my life 42 years. Tim has been in my life 34 years, but he had to be out of […]
CloudyinAK
Goodbye, Toronto May 10, 2022
I’m saying my goodbyes to Toronto. I’ve seen my last Hot Docs Festival film, and I’m just back from my last author program. I’ve probably had my last roti, checked out my last book at my local branch library, gone to my last art workshop. Horror of horrors, I’ve even watched my last play. The thing […]
CloudyinAK

Reality bites April 23, 2025
Alaska’s struggling salmon business While the North Pacific Ocean appears to have hit peak salmon – possibly to the detriment of the most prized and valued of salmon species – the […]
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Zoom Zombie April 18, 2025
The ‘accident’ just waiting to happen The highway as home studio If you have any questions about why American roads have become increasingly dangerous, let ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit and […]
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Malnourished launches today January 21, 2020
It’s here. The big day. My memoir, the one I spent 15 years struggling over, launches today from Raised Voice Press. I’m feeling very exposed, very vulnerable. This is not at all similar to when Dolls Behaving Badly launched from Hachette Book Group. That was a novel, and while some of it was based on… […]
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Book review: Secondhand Summer by Dan Walker December 1, 2019
I had had Alaska writer Dan Walker’s YA novel SECONDHAND SUMMER on my list for a long time, and two weeks ago finally had the chance to dive in. I wasn’t disappointed. Walker’s book, geared for middle school readers (but still immensely enjoyable for adults), follows 14-year-old Sam’s move to Anchorage from the small fishing… […]
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Observations on a Damp April Day April 5, 2025
Overcast with periods of light rain. Winds increasing during the day. Temperatures in the upper 40s. Another day spent mostly at home. After recording a conversation for Sunday’s show, I checked some locations for birds. The channel had a fair bit of gull activity. I scanned the flock without seeing any that stuck out as […]
matt goff
Spring Observations Along the Seawalk and Totem Park April 4, 2025
Skies ranged from overcast to clear during the day. Temperatures in the 40s, wind picking up this afternoon. A marine layer developed this morning and held into the afternoon before breaking up. It began to reform this evening, but appeared to have mostly dissipated after dark. I spent much of the day at home reading […]
matt goff

Sandra’s Overnight Artisan 10" Cast Iron Soft Bread-No Knead March 2, 2024
INGREDIENTS3-1/4 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon active yeast (not rapid or instant)1-1/2 teaspoons kosher salt1-1/2 cups slightly warm water (tepid)--2 teaspoons canola oil (For top and bottom of dough ball so it doesn't stick or form crust while rising)-2 TB butter melted in ramekin, with brush (set aside)--10” Seasoned Cast Iron SkilletMETHODAdd flour to bowl. Add yeast […]
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Sandra's Fresh Apple Pecan Cake (9x13") September 18, 2023
My husband loves this cakeso much he had two pieces 'after' eating lunch...Ingredients2 Eggs1 ½ cup Canola Oil2 cups Granulated Sugar3 cups A-P Flour2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon½ teaspoon Ground Nutmeg½ teaspoon Kosher Salt1 ½ teaspoons Baking Soda4 cups Chopped Apples (peeled and cored): measure after chopping1 cup chopped Pecans: measure after chopping1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract⅔ […]
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