Susitna Writer's Voice--"Not Your Ordinary Milk Cow", by Maureen Chambrone
It was fall of 2006 and, for as much as I wanted to finish my almost done cabin in Talkeetna, I just had to escape. A huge log chipping operation
Susitna Writer’s Voice is KTNA’s weekly showcase of writing and storytelling from the Upper Susitna Valley and beyond. In short, locally produced episodes, writers and community members share fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, interviews, student work, science features, and collaborative pieces. The series celebrates diverse voices, creativity, lived experience, and the stories that connect the community.
It was fall of 2006 and, for as much as I wanted to finish my almost done cabin in Talkeetna, I just had to escape. A huge log chipping operation
An essay by Talkeetna resident Bill Was, from his blog at talkeetnatraces.com In the wake of the UN sponsored meetings in Paris covering climate change once again the ‘news’ –
What’s coming up in the night sky, how we measure time, and why we need a leap day.
The three, (not five), planets in our morning sky, an upcoming near miss of the Moon and a star, and other astro-info about our unique perspective on the heavens above.
This is part 2. Click here for part 1. I left off my last story- which was ‘part one’ of the “Murre Invasion”- heading back to my temporary residence in
Photos by Billy FitzGerald This is part one. Click here for part 2. Last October I noticed a posting in our local Northern Susitna Birders group on the Internet about
In the summer of 2014 I visited a Bald Eagle’s nest I know of in Wasilla. I’d been going to visit a nest site a few hundred yards north of
My last story involved a nest of Blackpoll Warblers whose nestlings did not survive to fledge. I wanted to have this story be about two nests I observed that same
In this essay, we go back in time to an evening when Talkeetna writers gathered in the dirt-floored and chicken-wired Hangar, and way, way back to the dawn of the