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Bill Sherwonit
The next Outdoor Explorer will air during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and we’ll be discussing Alaska’s signature sporting event with nature writer Bill Sherwonit. Bill spent many years covering the Iditarod as a newspaper reporter and he has lots of stories from the trail. He’s recently put out a new book about the race. Tune in for a discussion with author Bill Sherwonit about the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Thanks for listening!
Bill Sherwonit
Alaskan editors, authors and writers discuss the role anthologies have had in introducing Alaska to Alaskans and the world. And the publishing and reprinting writers' work is also addressed. Participants: • Frank Soos (Under Northern Lights: Writers and Artists View the Alaskan Landscape) is Alaska State Writer Laureate, Professor Emeritus of English at University of Alaska Fairbanks and author of Bamboo Fly Rod Suite. • Marybeth Holleman (Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment) is author of The Heart of the Sound and Among Wolves • Bill Sherwonit (Denali: A Literary Anthology; Alaska Ascents; and Travelers' Tales Alaska) is a writing instructor and author of numerous books including Animal Stories, Changing Paths, and Living with Wildness • Lifelong Alaskan Wayne Mergler (The Last New Land : Stories of Alaska, Past and Present) is a retired English teacher and a former columnist of the Anchorage Daily News. • Cheryl Lovegreen (Anchorage Remembers: A Century of Tales) has been an Alaskan for forty-seven years and a member of 49 Writers for six years. A retired English teacher, she writes young adult historical romance under her pen name, Lynn Lovegreen
Gary Holthaus & Bill Sherwonit
In 1910, four Alaskan gold miners set out to climb Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, to win a two-cent bar bet. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the surprising story of the Sourdough Expedition, a mountaineering effort that one modern climber calls "superhuman by today's standards." We'll also hear about a ghoulish tourist destination and puzzle over why a painter would blame himself for World War II. Sources for our feature on the Sourdough expedition: Bill Sherwonit, "The Sourdough Expedition," Alaska 68:4 (May/June 2002), 28. Jason Strykowski, "Impossible Heights: The Alaskan Miners Who Conquered Mount McKinley," Wild West 24:4 (December 2011), 20. Terrence Cole, ed., The Sourdough Expedition, 1985. W.F. Thompson, "First Account of Conquering Mt. McKinley," New York Times, June 5, 1910. Listener mail: The Telegraph has a photo of the mummies in the Capuchin catacombs in Palermo, Sicily. Wikipedia has a photo of Rosalia Lombardo, the immaculately preserved 2-year-old embalmed in 1920, and another appears here: Karen Lange, "Lost 'Sleeping Beauty' Mummy Formula Found," National Geographic News, Jan. 26, 2009 (accessed 10/10/2015). This week's lateral thinking puzzle is from Paul Sloane and Des MacHale's 2005 book Outstanding Lateral Thinking Puzzles. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and all contributions are greatly appreciated. You can change or cancel your pledge at any time, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation via the Donate button in the sidebar of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
Speakers discuss how wildlife are central to their work and how that work -- for data, scientific observation and nature writing—changes their relationship to the wild. • Bill Sherwonit, author of more than a dozen books "whose writings explore the complicated relationships we humans have with wildlife." His newest book is Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska's Wildlife. • Audrey Taylor, UAA Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, whose research involves shorebirds, wildlife conservation, climate change and using citizen scientists as observers for data. (starts at 25:18 minutes) • Matthew Reimer, UAA Assistant Professor in Economics, ISER, whose research involves environmental and natural resource economics, with focus on fisheries and fishing policies. (starts at 58:23 minutes) • Discussion (starts at 1:14:16 minutes)
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., nature writer Bill Sherwonit has called Anchorage home since 1982. He has contributed to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, journals and anthropologies and is the author of more than a dozen books. His most recent books include Living with Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey and Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness. Bill has begun work on a collection of essays titled Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska's Wildlife.
This event about Mountaineering Literature includes Alaskan writers, scholars and climbers: David Stevenson (director of the MFA Program/UAA), Clare Chesher (English Dept/UAA), Charlie Sassara (mountaineer), and Bill Sherwonit (acclaimed author of numerous books about Denali and Alaska wilderness). This event was primarily sponsored by the MFA Program/UAA. After the event, the recording was posted as a UAA podcast.
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