Alaska’s Little Norway celebrated Norwegian Constitution Day in mid-May with a week-long festival.
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Tongass Voices: Nick Alan Foote on coming home for Celebration
He says that after he moved to Seattle, he started creating his own designs to cure his homesickness for Alaska.
Tongass Voices: Dave Hanson on the cosmos of Marie Drake Planetarium
Dave Hanson is an astrophotographer and one of the planetarium’s board members.
Tongass Voices: Seth Williams on what it takes to be a karaoke host
Every Wednesday night, the Alaskan Hotel & Bar in downtown Juneau swarms with karaoke hopefuls. The man who hands them the mic is Seth Williams
Visa programs draw foreign teachers to Alaska’s rural school districts
“I consider this already as my family, the community here, the kids here,” said special education teacher Dale Ebcas, who moved from the Philippines to Upper Kalskag in 2020.
Tongass Voices: Kanik Corinne James on being uplifted by Indigenous women in the art world
She learns from traditional formline styles, but adds her own creative twists to them. Kanik recently designed a piece called “Auntea” & she told KTOO what inspired the design.