July 25, 2021

Women and Alaska Aviation!

July 25, 2021/ Steve Stripling

Women and Alaska Aviation!
Carol Zerbe has over 20 years as an Alaska bush pilot. She's also an instructor, an examiner, a business owner, actively involved in aviation non-profits that promote women in aviation and she's a mom! Whew-I got carpal tunnel just typing that! Plus, she's a joy just to talk to. Fun interview. We even played a Tall Alaska Tale with Carol! Alaska was built on aviation and women have played a major role! Carol is one of them! Listen to the full show or just Carol's interview.

Carol's company Northbound Flying Service Website

Women in Aviation Last Frontier Chapter

Alaska Airmen's Association website

Check out our Tall Alaska Tale!

Click here to listen to our Alaskan women aviators Tall Alaska Tale

You can join the fun and let us know what you think!
http://www.bigalaskashow.com/contact

Power Player of the Week!

Ken Coston, president of Alaska Bikers Advocating Training and Education (ABATE), gives a quick update on Christmas in July, an annual program where ABATE and the motorcycle community delivers toys to kids in hospitals in Alaska. Ken's been helping lead ABATE to the next level!

www.abateofalaska.com

Here's the Full Show!

July 20, 2021

More Texan Visitors!

July 20, 2021/ Steve Stripling

More Texan Visitors!
July 17, 2021

As our Big Alaska Show Guest tourist, Joel T. Rutherford and his family visited our great state. Originally from Canada, Joel and Heather relocated to the Dallas area to expand their musical careers and raise a family. In a short week they packed every moment with as much Alaska fun as they could. What a blast they had! You can listen to Joel's tourist report and his attempt at our Tall Alaska Tale that takes place in Moose Pass. There's quite an interesting and unique history that takes place here - or does it?! Check out our interview with Joel and the Tall Alaska Tale!

July 11, 2021

Tundra Comics and Tree Houses!

July 11, 2021/ Steve Stripling

Want to get to know Alaska? Hang with the locals! Tundra Comics Creator Chad Carpenter is back! The Pandemic changed how he's doing some things but not his sense of humor. Over 600 newspapers carry his cartoon panels. And now he's added a bunch more in the digital world. We catch up on the latest with Chad.

For more information visit Chad's links:
www.patreon.com/tundracomics,
www.tundracomics.com

Plus, check out his tree house he built for his son!

Big Alaska Show Historian!

Stories of Alaska's history are some of our favorites. Steve Levi has them. As Steve says, "If you do not have something unique, you have nothing." Steve puts his words where his books are. Check out these websites for his books: https://authormasterminds.com/steve-levi and on our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section: http://www.bigalaskashow.com/book-reviews/cowboys-in-the-sky-steve-levi

To find more information visit
https://authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

Listen to our podcast interviews with these two BIG ALASKANS!

July 05, 2021

Big Alaska Show Guest Tourist!

July 05, 2021/ Steve Stripling

Big Alaska Show Guest Tourist!

Visitors to Alaska bring much appreciated revenues and we meet some interesting people. Joel T. Rutherford from Texas is bringing his family to Alaska for a vacation. And he’s a member of a gold medal winning quartet, Acoustix, https://www.acoustix.com/. Better yet, Joel is our Big Alaska Show Guest Tourist and we play Tall Alaska Tales with him (where we’re eligible to win our own prizes- hence, “better yet!”).

Tall Alaska Tale

Since the Rutherfords are going to Seward and go through Moose Pass, we thought our Tall Alaska Tale appropriate. You’ll find that here and our interview with Joel.

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Seward sits in beautiful Resurrection Bay, a charming, rich in marine-life community and home of the Alaska SeaLife Center.

Here’s a short, nifty description by its CEO/President, Tara Riemer.

Seward: Mural Capital of Alaska

Local Seward artist, Dot Bardarson, tells us about a unique feature about Seward: murals!

Check it out the walking tour! Seward murals

Special Tribute

My cousin’s daughter, Hannah, had a baby and named her middle name after my dad, Max Farrand Stripling. We thought we would welcome Annie Farrand Weatherford into the world in our very own Big Alaska Show way!