Tag: Juneau

The next game is just a dribble, a bounce pass, a jump shot away

YOU PROBABLY THINK SLED dog racing is THE Alaska sport. You’d be wrong. THE Alaska sport is basketball. Think about it. It’s played indoors. Even most smaller Alaskan villages have their own school, which includes their own gymnasium. The gym is where everything happens in Alaska village life, potlatches, voting, high school proms, earthquake and…

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This action was not necessarily inspired by a sense of devoted service to Alaska magazine

…give me a sunny day on the deck of the Millenium Hotel, with the float planes flying into Lake Hood overhead, a plate deep-fried halibut on the table in front of me, and a pint of Alaskan Amber in my hand, and I’m a happy woman. Which was why, when I went to Juneau recently,…

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