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The Anchorage Daily News had a front page story today on sexual abuse in rural Alaska. It gives no context at all. If I were relatively...

Two things have happened since I posted on Tony Hopfinger's story in The Walrus . First, The Walrus has now posted the whole story, so...

TO LIVE AND DIE IN WALES, ALASKA A young man tries to make his way in a village still reeling from the flu of 1918 by Tony Hopfinger Sy...

The Bering Air van took us downtown (we walked back later for our flight, about 30 minutes) and the sun was shining bright and the beach i...

Lena helped get people's luggage to the airport, but most of us just walked the 15 minutes to the airport. After just a few days, it wa...

Sunday while dinner was being prepared, we managed to get almost everyone togeter for a group picture on the steps to the Community Center....

The ostensible purpose of the trip to Wales was the Writing Workshop. I'd never been to one before and didn't know what to expect. ...

I'm still trying to catch up with the reports of the Wales/Nome trip. Last Saturday, while we were walking, Tony went out and caught a ...

Joan and I took a walk on Saturday afternoon along the beach to see the sculpture on the hill. There were several nets drying on the beac...

On Friday afternoon (still our first day in Wales) we did some writing exercises. Then we broke for dinner. Tony and his wife Joanne prepar...

That first day in Wales - Friday - after helping Alice get her tent up, we had a late lunch. Here you can see Winton (from Wales) and Eli (...