Online information session July 11, 1 pm Email dnr.oha@alaska.gov for zoom link
The Alaska State Museum is partnering with the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office to offer a new grant for museums, cultural heritage organizations, and even individuals to support Maritime Heritage projects and share information about Alaska’s Maritime Heritage.
Grants will start at $5,000 and must be matched by the applicant, either by in-kind effort or spending actual funds on their project. Applicants will need to outline how they’ll offer programming or lectures or lessons to the public. Grant activities should take place in 2024.
The Alaska State Library has created a guide to finding articles in historic Alaska newspapers. We’ve combined coverage from printed indexes with historic Alaska newspapers we've digitized and made searchable through Chronicling America.
Between the digitized newspapers in Chronicling America and print indexes located in the Alaska State Library and sometimes other communities, indexing or full-text searching is available for the following communities: Anchorage, Adak, Chitina, Cordova, Dillingham, Douglas, Eagle, Fairbanks, Glennallen, Haines, Homer, Hot Springs, Hydaburg, Hyder, Iditarod, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kenai, Kennecott (aka Kennicott), Kodiak, Knik, McCarthy, McGrath, Moose Pass, Nenana, Nome, Palmer, Petersburg, Rampart, Seldovia, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, Tanana, Unalakleet, Valdez, Wales, Wasilla, and Wrangell.
Time coverage varies greatly by town but, in most places, favors the first part of the 20th century. Subject coverage also varies.
The guide is also available through SLED’s history page under Research Resources and under Primary Sources. Feedback about this resource is welcome and can be sent to daniel.cornwall@alaska.gov.
[W]hile an increasing number of people nationally are participating in the now-federal holiday of Juneteenth commemorating the end of slavery, it’s also an official holiday for local tribal members observing Tlingit & Haida Day to celebrate their tribe’s federal recognition.
Which isn’t to suggest it’s an either/or occasion for Juneau residents.
“I’m going to celebrate both because I have mass respect for their culture,” said Hannahadina Kuhnert, who helped lead a Juneteenth Jubilee celebration at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library on Saturday.
"Juneteenth also marks a day of liberty for local tribal members in Juneau" by Mark Sabbatini, June 19, 2023. Juneau Empire.
The Alutiiq Museum is closing its doors in mid-July, as it prepares to break ground on a $13.8 million expansion project later this summer.
The Alutiiq Museum’s planned renovation and expansion will add 3,400 square feet to the museum’s existing building on Mission Road. The new space will include a bigger exhibit gallery and museum store, and a classroom and public gathering space. It also plans to build a collections vault and research laboratory in the facility’s basement.
The Fairbanks North Star Borough hosted a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday (Tues) to celebrate a 12-million-dollar renovation and expansion of the Noel Wein Library.
The award-winning Kuskokwim Consortium Library in Bethel hosted a cooking class where participants learned how to prepare and cook delicious meals and desserts using dutch ovens outdoors. Students were invited to learn how to spice up their camp cooking repertoire and were taught by Kuskokwim Consortium Library Director Theresa Quiner.
The Gourmet Dutch Oven class participants made melt in your mouth Alaska Berry Cobbler, dreamy quiche, two different kinds of pizzas that drew oohs and aahs, filling corned beef hash and fried eggs that were cooked on the flipped lid of one of the dutch ovens, and tasty sesame soy camp greens – all the recipes were provided by Quiner and were a success. All the food was quickly eaten up by the hungry students as soon as they were done...
Dutch oven kits are available for check out at the library for folks who would like to try gourmet outdoor cooking at home or at fish camp.
Petersburg’s Clausen Memorial Museum closed out Pride month with a temporary art show honoring diverse gender identities and sexual orientations. KFSK’s Shelby Herbert has the story on the exhibit and what Pride means to the people who helped put it together.
On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with Kodiak Library staff and KPLA about summer programs at the library and recommendations for summer reading.
A few days ago, Mat Wooller had news about a woolly mammoth my friend LJ and I “adopted” last October.
“You’ve got one of the youngest ones,” said Wooller, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and inventor of the Adopt-A-Mammoth program.
Wooller’s goal is to carbon-date the 1,500 mammoth fossils that rest in drawers within the University of Alaska Museum of the North. He has created a crowdfunding project to find out more about when the iconic woolly mammoth disappeared from mainland Alaska.
The Ketchikan City Council in a special meeting Thursday voted unanimously to add an appeals process policy to the Ketchikan Public Library’s procedures, and voted 4 to 3 to retain the controversial book “Let’s Talk About it: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being Human” in the teen section of the library.
Danelle Kelly, June 23, 2023. Ketchikan Daily News.
The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), on behalf of the Ocean Policy Committee (OPC), request input from all interested parties to inform the development of an Ocean Justice Strategy.
The Ocean Justice Strategy will describe the vision, goals, and high-level objectives for coordinating and guiding ocean justice activities across the Federal Government. It may also serve as a reference for Tribal, Territorial, State, and local governments, regional management bodies, and non-governmental groups.
The July 2023 issue of Alaska Economic Trends takes a deep dive into Alaska’s current prices and puts them in context with prices over time and in other parts of the country.
Wildfires have recently been a hot topic of conversation among the 12- and 13-year-old girls on my daughter’s softball team. That’s because an ongoing blaze on Vancouver Island, where we live and where Hakai Magazine is based, has closed the only highway to their end-of-season tournament and filled the air with smoke that’s not conducive to running the bases. As an assistant coach, I get to be part of the lively discussions in the stretching circle...
As we await word on the fire, the highway, and the tournament, I worry that beneath the immediate anxiety over whether they’ll get to play in the tournament, some of the girls may also be experiencing climate anxiety.
One of the best antidotes to climate anxiety is climate action, and there are plenty of places to look for inspiration—including within the pages of several of this season’s new kids’ beach reads.
The White House announced more than $1 billion in new funding for Alaska broadband access Monday, money that officials say will play a significant role in bringing improved internet to rural Alaska communities.
Riley Rogerson, June 26, 2023. ADN.
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