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Alaska Native News: January 17, Today in Alaska History
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman: Igloos in Palmer, and the best ice cream in the Valley
The 100th Anniversary Lecture: Sinking of the Good Ship DORA 7PM Thursday January 21, 2021
Join us online for a free virtual CIHS lecture.
Advance registration is required to receive the link. Please register directly on the Anchorage Museum website:
https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/visit/calendar/details/?id=64069
The staunch little steamer Dora served in Alaskan waters her entire career: delivering the mail, transporting food and goods from Southeast Alaskan ports all the way to Bristol Bay and rescuing hundreds lost at sea. Sold into the cod fishery she made her last voyage to Alaska with a green crew when tragedy struck in the winter of 1920. This talk will be a celebration of her life and a commemoration of her tragic sinking one hundred years ago. This is the third talk in the Cook Inlet Historical Society’s 2020-2021 Speaker Series, “Disasters.”
J. Pennelope Goforth has been a member of coastal historical societies for many years researching and writing about Alaska history. She has been a member of the Historic Canneries Preservation Initiative and served as editor of the Alaska Historical Society’s cannery blog, and as guest editor for the Puget Sound Historical Maritime Society’s widely-regarded journal, The Sea Chest. She curated and created an online portal for the Port of Alaska’s historic scrapbooks. She is the author of Sailing the Mail in Alaska and has a maritime research website, www.seacatexplorations.com.
Cordially yours,
J. Pennelope Goforth
“How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly ocean.”
-Arthur C. Clarke
http://seacatexplorations.com/
SeaCat Explorations: Adventures in Alaska’s Maritime History
POB 240165
Anchorage, AK 99524-0165
Tel: 907.227.7837
Wickersham’s Conscience: Another Bird Is Vanishing
Alaska Highway News, The Canadian Press: Melinda Gates writes US$250K cheque for prize spotlighting female fiction writers
The annual award is set to be handed out each spring starting in 2023 after the launch was postponed by a year because of the COVID-19 crisis.
The prize will carry a $150,000 cheque for the winner, and $12,500 to four finalists.
Eligible women and non-binary writers must be residents or citizens of the U.S. or Canada, and the books must be published in English in those two countries.
