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Alaska: Your Uncle’s Tales from the Last Frontier
Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Jan 7th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: jeffrey hill, alaska, crazy bearded uncle, smoking laws, ship creek, tales from the frontier, juneau bars, taxicab capital of the world | 0
Before the Internet, our imagination took us to Alaska: land of snow, oil, mid-life crisis luxury cruises, three Republican electoral votes and caribou. Studious third grade boys held on to the belief that it is the largest U.S. state by area, over cries of “stupid” and the pressure to give in to Texas. It was a place that your crazy, bearded uncle moved to because he had to “sort things out.” Nature channels featured jobs in Alaska as “opportunities for death at sea.”
One day, your…
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