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Our illustrious Big Alaska Show Book Panel interview 3 Alaskan authors which you can find more about their books and podcasts on our Big Alaska Show Book Review section.
Click on Elishaba Doerksen (Out of the Wilderness), Richard Chiappone (The Hunger for Crows) and Steven Levi (Bonfire Saloon).
Or listen to the full Saturday morning radio show here
It's a fun, informative show when we get these two together on the Big Alaska Show!
Award winning author, Lolo Paige and our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, join us to talk about Lolo's new romance novel, Alaska Inferno, and talk about overland wild fires.
Plus, our show started with an equipment glitch that we left in the full podcast. Or you can bypass it to go to our interview with Lolo and Gordon and find her book in our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section!
Happy Birthdays!
Our record setting "attempt" at the largest Big Alaska Show birthday celebration!
Forest Fires. Romance and Science Meet!
Our guests, Lolo Paige, author of Alaska Spark, and our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, take us into the world of forest fires.
Lolo and Gordon have spent their educational lives and professional careers around the forest industry.
Their roundtable chat helps us better understand the West Coast fires and other forest phenomena.
We even have a science fair project from Dr. Gordon Snyder!
Be sure to visit our Book Review Section for Lolo’s book, Alaska Spark.
Listen to the full podcast!
Alaska’s tourism industry took a big hit this year. So we invited our Big Alaska Show Guest Tourist, Henry Lenz, a retired CBS radio engineer who worked with broadcast legends, to come visit us. It’s fun to get to know and appreciate our visitors – and their money ... especially their money! We even celebrated his birthday with a Tall Alaska Tale! (We “forgot” to tell him we win our own prizes!) Author, Lolo Paige, a former firefighter with the Bureau of Land Management, joins us to give a sneak preview of her book, Alaska Spark, plus much more!
Former Alaskan Bureau of Land Management firefighter, Lolo Paige, talks about her book, Alaska Spark!
We’ll have Lolo Paige back to discuss her book once I read it!
In the meantime, you can check it out for yourself.
Big Alaska Show Guest Tourist
Henry Lenz and his cousin Jerry
Henry Lenz shares stories about a remarkable broadcast career with Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and more! Plus we play Tall Alaska Tales!
Great way to spend a Saturday! Authors Mike Gordon and Andy Hall share climbing tales from their books: Learning the Ropes: An Alaskan Memoir by
Mike Gordon and Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak by Andy Hall.
Each shares experience adventures you’ll find in our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section!
Mike and Shelli have lived an amazing Alaskan adventure and share it in this book!
Learning the Ropes: An Alaskan Memoir
Denali’s Howl by Andy Hall
Andy Hall talks about his book and Denali’s deadliest climbing accident!
Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak
Mike Gordon talks about his entertaining and inspirational book, “Learning the Ropes: An Alaskan Memoir”.
Mike Gordon had created the most popular nightclub in Alaska, Chilkoot Charlie's. But his personal life was in shambles - drug addiction, failed marriages and about to lose another. So he decided to turn his life around. And boy did he ever! Seven summits on the highest mountains on 7 continents, 15 marathons and 48 years after leaving college went back to get his BA and M.A. His M.A. thesis was his book.
Visit Mike Gordon’s website for an autographed copy! www.mikegordonauthor.com.
Hear the podcast!
(The Zoom quality varies, our apologies, but overall some gold nuggets!)
Mike Dunham retired from 25 years broadcast career and 25 years newspaper career including Arts Editor for the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska. He then wrote two books,
The Man Who Sold Alaska and The Man Who Bought Alaska. Mike and I went to high school together and years later worked at KENI 650 AM radio in Anchorage, AK.
This was at a time Alaska was going through an economic crash which resulted in entertaining stories you will find here as well!
Dr. Gordon Snyder
Avoiding Zones of Contamination
Our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, helps us understand and navigate through potential everyday COVID 19 exposure.
This interview shows some ways he avoids it. He actually developed a systematic process!
In this show, we talk with Bob Bell—a true Alaskan outdoorsman. Stories, banter, a Tall Alaska Tale, and more!
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It means something extra when Kim Carlson has attendst he annual Polar Bear Jump Off in Seward, AK, as she has done for ten years—raising tens of thousands of dollars. She has dedicated her jumps, first to her mother, who was lost to cancer, and subsequently to other victims and their families.
It was a packed house and a packed show of fun! Alaskans and Texans- in the same room! Only on the Big Alaska Show can such a combination co-exist in the same room.
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