GHN Vol. 29 No. 2 Fall/Winter 2024

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  • New century: tech tipping point and evolving emphasis
  • Transition of Dzantik’i Heeni amongst early work of esteemed author
  • “Smart to have a museum that interpreted all of its history”
  • Statewide clearinghouse for Alaska crafts promoted and protected indigenous artists
  • Commander of 2,000 troops took pride in ship-shape Duck Creek post
  • Booze was big business until the “bone dry” ban
  • “Separation from the sea” illustrative of Indigenous experience along the channel
  • Adventurer, fisherman, merchant, journalist: DeArmond was the ultimate citizen historian
  • Juneau’s first newspaper was published in 1887; Bob’s picks capture local quirks
  • “Belle-weather” of local history lived nearly a century of it
  • Southeast fair, born in Juneau, brought 20 years of fall fun
  • Presidential prediction ignites simmering Southeast vote to secede from Alaska
  • After 60 years, the smoke and steam cleared and the whine of the saw was silenced
  • 1912: New ventures and plenty of promise
  • 1918: “Will disasters never cease?”
  • Unafraid of political scraps, Wickersham was committed Native ally
  • Filipino families and labor was integral early on
  • Papers’ rowdy heyday gone: from four loud dailies to none
  • Trending Tlingit: indigenous restoration gaining
  • Reparations atone for racist closure of thriving integrated church
  • Douglas survived mine closures and fires, but unification extinguished its independence
  • Gastineau City: a mine owner’s dream town that never came to be
  • Live performances and lives lost gain Treadwell space
  • City needs local history advocates
  • Volunteers have powered GCHS for 40 years