The AnchorED City Podcast is connecting with Anchorage’s soul through her history, stories, and people.
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7 days ago
7 days ago
According to US News and World Report Anchorage, Alaska is the #3 most dangerous place to live in the United States. Alaska has had the reputation and reality of violence since the early days of the territory. On this episode we consider a couple of serial killers from Alaska’s past and Anchorage’s most violent year.
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@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/most-dangerous-places
https://www.vogue.com/article/best-true-crime-podcasts
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11691774/
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/murder-and-mystery-in-the-last-frontier/id1464610311
https://alaska-native-news.com/november-29th-1915/46015/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1915-11-16/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1915-11-30/ed-1/seq-1/
https://auntphilstrunk.com/alaskas-first-serial-killer-strikes/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1917-04-16/ed-1/seq-1/
https://dps.alaska.gov/AST/PIO/PressReleases/Victim-of-Serial-Killer-Robert-Hansen-Identified-3
Boots, M.T., 2016, ‘Anchorage is on track to break the record for most homicides in one year. What is going on?’, Alaska Daily News, 3 September, 2016, viewed 19 February 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2016/09/03/anchorage-is-on-track-this- year-to-break-its-annual-homicide-record-whats-going-on/.
Boots, M.T., 2016a, ‘Anchorage’s deadly year: With 34 homicide victims, violence hits home’, Alaska Daily News, 31 December, 2016, viewed 28 January 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2016/12/31/anchorages-deadly-year-with-34- homicide-victims-violence-hits-home/.
Alaska Dispatch News, 2017, ‘Alaska Dispatch News poll: Crime’, Alaska Daily News, 18 January, 2017, viewed 19 February 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska- news/2017/01/18/alaska-dispatch-news-poll-crime/.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Underground crime is not a thing of the past in Anchorage. One of those crimes is human trafficking. Join me on this episode as I talk with Josie Heyano of Signify Consulting, about what is possible in the area of human trafficking.
Heyano is a Presidentially appointed member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, a formal platform to advise and make recommendations on federal anti-trafficking policies to the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF).
https://www.signifyconsultingak.org
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https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/19/alaska-homeless-youth-sex-trafficking-study
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Anchorage has always had an underground of illegal activity. Those activities might have literally taken place underground in tunnels or basement bars, or they could have figuratively been underground thinly veiled behind words like “resort” or “boarding house.” On this episode we explore some of Anchorage’s underground past.
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https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.ghosttoursofanchorage.com/
https://www.adn.com/our-alaska/article/host-invites-curious-anchorages-spookiest-places/2011/05/07/
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/empress-theater-1916-2013/
https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/news/archive/2015/05/the-seedy-sudsy-history-of-the-49th-state.cshtml
https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F87446A62E009E%402430437-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%407-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%40?search_terms=%22South%2BSeas%22&text=%22South%20Seas%22&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=20&pdate=1942-03-18
https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/spenard-joseph-a-joe/
“Local Jottings about Town,” Anchorage Daily Times, June 26, 1916, 7. Quoted from Michael Carberry and Donna Lane, Patterns of the Past: An Inventory of Anchorage’s Historic Resources: 200.
Collins, Jan MacKell. Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. United States, TwoDot, 2020.
https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/crocker-ulysses-grant-ug/
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
On this episode we consider what is possible in the area of substance misuse as we talk about recovery with Tiffany Hall. She shares with us her story of addiction and recovery. Hall is the Executive Director of Recover Alaska and the vice chair of the board of the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance.
https://www.facebook.com/recoveralaska
https://www.instagram.com/recoveralaska/
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
On this episode we will turn our attention to two different historical stories about mind altering substances…one the legal sale of beer, and the other, Alaska’s long history of semi-legal and legal marijuana.
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https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Hear Bill Howell read the section of Alaska Beer: Liquid Gold in the Land of the Midnight Sun about Prinz Brau here: https://www.kdll.org/show/drinking-on-the-last-frontier/2023-06-27/prinz-to-paupers
Howell, B. (2015). Alaska Beer: Liquid Gold in the Land of the Midnight Sun. United States: Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. Chapter 7
Watch the Alaska Review episode titled “Great Land, Great Beer, Great Problems” from 1977 here: Alaska Film Archive -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3hx7aSdCCo
https://law.justia.com/cases/alaska/supreme-court/1975/2135-1.html
https://www.adn.com/cannabis-north/article/alaska-weed-history/2014/04/14/
https://health.alaska.gov/dph/Director/Documents/marijuana/MarijuanaUse_PublicHealth_Alaska_2020.pdf
https://alaskapublic.org/2023/05/31/death-rate-from-drinking-nearly-doubles-in-alaska-over-2-years/
https://www.adn.com/features/article/dreaming-big-6-alaska-boondoggles/2011/10/10/
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
It can often feel like racism and racial bias are impossible to overcome. Rev. Dr. Patricia Wilson-Cone joins us on this episode to help us consider what is possible in the area of racism and racial bias. Wilson-Cone is a pastor, scholar, chaplain trainer, and author. Her book Multicultural Diversity: Opening Our Hearts was released in 2019.
https://www.facebook.com/FirstAmericanBaptistChurch/
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https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
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Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
When Lin-Manuel Miranda said of his hit musical “This is a story about America then, told by America now” he could not have known how much that connects with the history of Anchorage. When Alaskans packed the Alaska Performing Arts Center to see Hamilton recently many did not know how that building represents the city’s resistance to the diversity of America and Anchorage now.
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Glavinic, T., 2014, ‘Remembering Elizabeth Peratrovich: Alaska’s civil rights legacy’, Alaska Commons, 17 February, 2014, viewed 30 January 2019, from http://www.alaskacommons.com/2014/02/17/remembering-elizabeth-peratrovich/
http://albertaschenckadams.com/
Schenck, A., 1944, ‘To whom it may concern’, Nome Nugget, 3 March, 1944, viewed 30 January 2019, from https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg21/id/2057/
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska 2009 - DVD
https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AK-01-SC006
Hartman, I.C., Reamer, D., 2022. Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton/408019/
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/martin-luther-king-avenue-opens-wednesday/2010/08/03/
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Over the past three years we have explored the issues facing Anchorage, the places where things are, or are becoming, the way they are supposed to be for all people, and the hydra that is homelessness. In season 4 we will consider “What is possible?”
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https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.anchoragememories.com/anchorage-television-was-two-weeks-old.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2009/jul/02/apollo-moon-eagle-has-landed
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armstrong_Small_Step.ogg
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
I recently flew to Seattle, on one of the routes Alaska Air flies known as a milk run. It was a long, slow, and interesting way to fly to Seattle. But the connection between Seattle and Alaska has always included long, slow, interesting journeys.
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https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.ragsrag.com/pr/pr.html - Echoes from the Snowball Club (Piano Roll)
https://www.ragsrag.com/vp/vp.html - Harlem Rag & Mandy’s Broadway Stroll
https://www.nordstrom.com/browse/about/company-history
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Jasper, P.B., & Blasongame, B.M., 1983, A gathering of saints in Alaska: An informal chronicle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the State of Alaska, Hiller Industries, Salt Lake City.
Aunt Phil’s Trunk #3 p.36
http://www.anchoragecreeks.org/media/publications/Campbell_Creek_History.pdf
https://www.muni.org/Departments/parks/cemetery/Pages/honored.aspx
https://www.alaskahistory.org/anchorage-timeline/
https://www.loc.gov/resource/2019271003/1915-06-05/ed-1/?sp=8&r=0.402,1.045,0.692,0.31,0
Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park – Seattle - https://www.nps.gov/klse/index.htm
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
On the third floor of the UAA/APU Library are boxes lining row after row of shelves filled with bits of Alaska’s history. On this episode we visit the UAA/APU Consortium Library Archive with our host Becky Butler.
https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/
https://www.facebook.com/ConsortiumLibraryArchives
https://www.facebook.com/ConsortiumLibrary
@ ConsortiumLibrary
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
What likely springs to mind when one thinks of women's baseball is the 1992 movie, "A League of their Own," starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. Yet the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was neither the beginning nor the end of women's baseball. On this episode we'll explore women's baseball in the city of Anchorage.
#anchoredcity
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGORpNnGAcE
http://www.historygrandrapids.org/audio/2449/grand-rapids-chicks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids_(baseball)
https://www.aagpbl.org/seasons
https://www.aagpbl.org/history/league-history
http://www.coloradosilverbullets.org/
BULLETS GET SHOT AT BUCS - ALL-WOMEN'S TEAM TO VISIT ANCHORAGE, by Beath Bragg. Anchorage Daily News. May 30, 1997. Page C1 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F794144C07D3493?search_terms=colorado%2Bsilver%2Bbullets&text=colorado%20silver%20bullets&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=ADNB&sort=old&pdate=1997-05-30
SILVER BULLETS GROW WEARY OF THE LABELS, by Van Willaims. Anchorage Daily News. June 25, 1997. Page C1. https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F793F52759013D9?search_terms=colorado%2Bsilver%2Bbullets&text=colorado%20silver%20bullets&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=ADNB&sort=old&pdate=1997-06-25
6,525 FANS WATCH BUCS SHUT OUT SILVER BULLETS, by Staff. Anchorage Daily News, June 26, 1997, page B3 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F793EB7B84602DF?search_terms=colorado%2Bsilver%2Bbullets&text=colorado%20silver%20bullets&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=ADNB&sort=old&pdate=1997-06-26
http://anchoragebucs.com/view/anchoragebucs/our-mission-15/bucs-history-2
https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/325/rec/10
https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/131/rec/13
https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/353/rec/14
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=803978487963131&set=a.583088483385467
ANCHORAGE AND KINK OBSERVE THE NATAL DAY – by Staff, Cook Inlet Pioneer and Kink News, July 10, 1915 -
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2019271003/1915-07-10/ed-1/seq-6/
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Back in February of 1921 Anchorage’s first Police Chief was found in an alley with a gunshot wound after just 51 days on the job. For 100 years the death of Jack Sturgus remained a mystery. Have Dr. Laura Koenig and Rick Goodfellow solved this century-old cold-case? In this episode we find out.
Dr. Laura Koenig: Artistic Director for the Anchorage Festival of Music; UAA Music History professor for 15 years; UAA adjunct instructor of flute; principle flute Anchorage Opera; Section Flute Anchorage Symphony Orchestra.
Rick Goodfellow: founder of KLEF radio and owner of Ghost Tours of Anchorage
Cook Inlet Historical Society Lecture: The Life and Once-Mysterious Death of Anchorage's First Police Chief – watch the replay here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/4592q90u/register
https://www.ghosttoursofanchorage.com/
#anchoredcity
https://anchoredcity.podbean.com
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Perhaps the most prominent statue in downtown is the one of Captain Cook at Resolution Point. A lesser-known statue stands at the Ship Creek Boat Launch and depicts Grandma Olga. Join us on this episode for the story of these two statues.
#anchoredcity
https://anchoredcity.podbean.com
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285335/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Race_12
“Ship Creek - The art installation took more than a decade to complete, tied in with big infrastructure projects in the area.” – by Devin Kelly – Anchorage Daily News – November 30, 2018 – Accessed: https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/1708ADCFA4385E90?search_terms=
Interpretive signs at the Grandma Olga statue.
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
When I travel to other cities I often play a little game. I ask, how does this city connect with Anchorage? So what is the connection between Montreal, Quebec and Anchorage, Alaska?
#anchoredcity
https://anchoredcity.podbean.com
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.providence.org/about/our-heritage/alaska
https://providenceintl.org/en/search-requests/three-great-providence-women/blessed-emilie-gamelin/
https://www.providence.org/about/our-heritage/alaska
https://providencearchives.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15352coll9/id/764/
Louis Armstrong And His Savoy Ballroom Five – St. James Infirmary – Dec. 12, 1928 – Okeh 8657
Vess L. Ossman – the Buffalo Rag – c. December 1905 – Columbis A218
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
BTS 18 – Winter Sports 5: From the Trailer Park to the World Cup w/ Naomi Kiekintveld
We have all heard the stories of Anchorage kids who have grown up skiing in the city and ended up racing at the highest levels of the sport, but what about those that chose a different route – coaching? On this episode we are talking to Naomi Kiekintveld who took an unlikely route into skiing that led from a trailer park to the World Cup.
https://www.facebook.com/naomi.kiekintveld
@gnome.on.skis
https://nationalnordicfoundation.org
https://www.facebook.com/NationalNordicFoundation/
https://www.womenskicoaches.org/
https://www.facebook.com/womenskicoaches
https://www.facebook.com/APUNordicSkiTeam
https://anchoragenordicski.com/
https://www.facebook.com/anchoragenordicski
http://usskiandsnowboard.org/teams/cross-country
https://www.facebook.com/usskiandsnowboard
@usskiteam
#anchoredcity
https://anchoredcity.podbean.com
https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC
@AnchorageUTC
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://skimap.org/skiAreas/view/2932
https://crosscountryskihistory.us/events/world-cup/
Race Set Over World Cup Course – Anchorage Daily Times – Wednesday March 2, 1983 - Page D2 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16BECD64055E54DA@2445396-16BEA62E51D700FC@23-16BEA62E51D700FC@?search_terms
Anchorage Cup X-C Ski – Anchorage Daily Times – Monday March 7, 1983 - Page D4 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16BECD6F9058CE32@2445401-16BEA639E9109E6F@28-16BEA639E9109E6F@?search_terms
World Cup Comes to Anchorage – Anchorage Daily Times – Sunday March 12, 1983 - Page E3 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16BECD7BD4A62451@2445407-16BECC5739E9354D@40-16BECC5739E9354D@?search_terms
Shovelers Needed For National Relays – Anchorage Daily News – Thursday March 17, 1983 - Page D1 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-14E427D4B7ABB087@2445411-14E41E2C9E6B8E46@45-14E41E2C9E6B8E46@?search_terms
Koch Regains Lead in World Cup Race – Anchorage Daily News – Sunday March 20, 1983 - Page D1 & D4 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-14E427D8E8208C26@2445414-14E41FB16CFB3EE2@28-14E41FB16CFB3EE2@?search_terms
Finn Wins, Improves Cup Standing – Anchorage Daily News – Monday March 21, 1983 - Page C1 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-14E427DA3822C005@2445415-14E4211C4E59A2A1@25-14E4211C4E59A2A1@?search_terms
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
BTS 17 – Winter Sports 4: The History of the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage w/ Alice Tower Knapp
In a recent review of the book “On Track! The Nordic Ski Association of Anchorage” Chris Bieri wrote in the Anchorage Daily News:
“There aren’t many people better positioned to tell the story of the growth and expansion of cross-country skiing in Anchorage than Alice Tower Knapp.” On this episode we are talking to Alice Tower Knapp about the history of Nordic skiing in Anchorage.
https://anchoragenordicski.com/
https://www.facebook.com/anchoragenordicski
#anchoredcity
Info. on the Cook Inlet Historical Society lecture:
ON TRACK! THE NORDIC SKIING ASSOCIATION OF ANCHORAGE: 1964-2023
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Daily Doings Around Town - Anchorage Daily Times – Friday, February 16, 1917 – page 8 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16F8874A80489888@2421276-16F718BC3867DAF7@7-16F718BC3867DAF7@?search_terms
Daily Doings Around Town - Anchorage Daily Times – Saturday, February 24, 1917 – page 8 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16F887502E90959E@2421284-16F885AC5CA09A57@7-16F885AC5CA09A57@?search_terms
Daily Doings Around Town - Anchorage Daily Times – Tuesday, February 27, 1917 – page 8 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16F88751390AFBAD@2421287-16F885BBDC42877C@7-16F885BBDC42877C@?search_terms
Five-mile ski race to be pulled of Sunday - Anchorage Daily Times – Friday, March 2, 1917 – page 8 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16F88753B272212C@2421290-16F885CD25A449EB@3-16F885CD25A449EB@?search_terms
John Aho wins the Ten-Mile Skii Race - Anchorage Daily Times – Monday, March 5, 1917 – page 5 https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16F88754CE9990B6@2421293-16F718BF73271018@4-16F718BF73271018@?search_terms
Aho Wins In The Skii Race - Anchorage Daily Times – Monday, March 12, 1917 – page 2 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16F88BBC2F32F0BB@2421300-16F718A2436EAF52@1-16F718A2436EAF52@?search_terms
http://www.alsap.org/History/photos.htm