History

Tom Kizzia spent three years with the Homer News in the late 1970s before moving to the Anchorage Daily News, where he worked for 25 years.

At least 3,500 Alaskans went to Morningside, including many Alaska Native people. Many of their families never saw them again.

“So all of my memories, there’s always food associated with them,” said Juneau chef Rachel Barril.

For Filipino American History Month, Peñaranda visited Juneau last week for the closing of the exhibit. He reminisced over names and faces in the exhibit, like the Filipino union leaders who formed the Alaska Cannery Workers Association.

The nonprofit says it aims to improve the relationship of people — both Indigenous and non-Indigenous — with the history and sacredness of the land around them.

Presbyterian church leaders have determined that closing the church was an act of racism.