Northern Soundings: Alaska in Conversation

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2024-03-13

  If I Forget You, Libya: Penina Solomon & Dr. David Gerbi

In the three months following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the Anti-Defamation League reports Anti-Semitic incidents in our country leapt 360%. Despite the rising tensions and their past experiences of anti-Jewish riots in Libya, my guests thi...
  Robert Hannon author
2024-02-28

  Remembering the Unimaginable: Tyler C. Kirk

My guest this show is University of Alaska Fairbanks historian Tyler C. Kirk. His book After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North, was recently published by Indiana University Press. Kirk will be talking about the people and policies fe...
  Robert Hannon author
2024-02-14

  Matthew Wooller: A Life’s Subtle Path

You are what you eat. Just ask Dr. Matthew Wooller, a paleoecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The eating habits of a mammoth some 14 millennia ago allowed Wooller and his colleagues to map the animal’s journey across Alaska. Wooller also ...
  Robert Hannon author
2023-12-27

  Jon Holmgren Pt.2

I continue my conversation with Jon Holmgren. Besides being an inventor, machinist, geophysicist and mountaineer, Jon is something of a philosopher. So says his friend and colleague Matthew Sturm in his book Finding the Arctic. Jon’s shop is the site f...
  Robert Hannon author
2023-12-14

  Jon Holmgren Pt.1

My guest in the next two shows is Jon Holmgren. I’ve known about Jon ever since I first talked with snow scientist Matthew Sturm years ago. Matthew in his book Finding the Arctic describes Jon as a machinist, miner, geophysicist, traveler and arctic ph...
  Robert Hannon author
2023-11-30

  Mining History: Tom Bundtzen

As part of this past UAF Summer Session’s Tall Timber series, I spoke with Tom Bundtzen. Many know him as a research geologist as well as an avid mining historian. After retiring as Senior Economic Geologist for the Alaska Division of Geological and Ge...
  Robert Hannon author
2023-11-15

  Sharing Resilience: Wendell Shiffler

Each summer I talk with fascinating Fairbanksans through UAF Summer Sessions‘ “Tall Timber” series. One of those figures this past summer was Wendell Shiffler. Wendy, as he is known, has spent a lifetime relishing life and the outdoors. He’s also spent...
  Robert Hannon author
2023-10-25

  The Right to Read: Greg Hill

Banning books has a disturbing history in our country. Greg Hill is probably best known locally through his weekly columns in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Parents may know of Greg’s work starting the Guys and Gals Read program in the elementary scho...
  Robert Hannon author
2023-10-11

  Finding One’s Way: Stephen Parker

On this show I talk with psychologist Stephen Parker. Parker has been a practicing therapist in Fairbanks for decades. More than twenty years ago, in response to a series of coronary troubles including a massive heart attack, he built a series of stone...
  Robert Hannon author
2023-09-27

  Cultivating Community: Terry Reichardt

In the summers University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Summer Sessions hosts a series of conversations. It’s called “Tall Timbers” and salutes Fairbanks residents who have made an indelible mark on the community. One of the people tapped this past summer is Te...
  Robert Hannon author