49 Writers brings us an intriguing panel of Ishmael Hope & Don Rearden discussing the survival novel, In the Heart of the Sea.
A Basket Case
Weaver Kathryn Rousso discusses her amazing baskets as well as types of basket weaving.
Richard Nelson – Conversations
Conversations # 420 – Richard Nelson – September, 1988
American Conversations with U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith visits Juneau as part of her second-term project, American Conversations: Celebrating Poems in Rural Communities. Ms. Smith reads her own poetry and unveils the poetry anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, featuring the work of 50 living American poets of different backgrounds, offering 50 different outlooks on…
Author Talk with Ken Coates
Ken Coates, co-author of The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her, discusses the book and looks back at the disaster. First published in 1990, the book is still the definitive history of the 1918 shipwreck that took the lives of all 353 people onboard.
Brad Stevens on The Ship, the Saint, and the Sailor: The Long Search for the Legendary Kad’yak
Dr. Bradley Stevens presents about the discovery of the Kad’yak shipwreck. In 1861, the Russian barque Kad’yak hit a rock, but drifted for four days due to its cargo of ice. The ship’s final resting place was unknown for 140 years until Stevens and a team of divers found it near Spruce Island in 2003.