December 25, 2023

The Spaces Between: Stories From the Kenai Mountains to the Kenai Fjords By Doug Capra

December 25, 2023/ Steve Stripling

This entertaining Alaska gold nugget packed with Seward's colorful history makes you feel like you live there. Besides an excellent author and historian, Doug Capra is a storytelling educator whose attention to historic detail brings these stories and people alive while camouflaging the painstaking research behind them. Looking for a binge-worthy true Alaska reality show? Eureka!

Listen to our podcast interview with Doug about Seward's Christmas Tree and Rockwell Kent's Fox Island Christmas!

Doug Capra article: The Luxury of Forgetting

February 11, 2023

It's Only Fishing: Tales of Alaska, fly fishing and young adulthood

February 11, 2023/ Steve Stripling

It's Only Fishing: Tales of Alaska, fly fishing and young adulthood

by Joe Jackson

2020 was a year of change. Caught between occupations and a global pandemic, 24-year-old Joe Jackson decided to write an essay for every fly-fishing trip he took. And just like the fishing itself, these essays drift from the metaphysical to the wholly matter-of-fact.

Hear the extended interview!