If you’ve driven on Mendenhall Loop Road, you may have seen the huts. The rusted steel half-circles look a bit like mini-airplane hangars.
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Historic Alaska newspapers are being posted online
Staff from Alaska’s State Libraries, Archives and Museums is working to digitize historic newspapers to be posted online. The first batch was posted in August — about 100,000 pages and more are on the way.
Where did the Birdman of Alcatraz commit his first murder?
Many people are familiar with the story of Robert Stroud, one of the country’s most famous inmates of the last century, and how he spent over half his life in solitary confinement and gained fame for his careful study of birds and bird diseases. But many people probably don’t know that Stroud was initially sent to prison for a murder he committed just a few short blocks away from the present-day Alaska State Capitol in downtown Juneau.