The AnchorED City

Driving through the through Anchorage it’s nearly impossible to not see our unhoused neighbors. In light of our current situation I wondered how long Anchorage has had people experiencing homelessness. To answer that question I dove into the Anchorage Daily News archives and began looking for the first reference to homelessness as we understand it today.

What I found was interesting.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024772/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_2_nm_6_q_%25E2%2580%259CWild%2520Boys%2520of%2520the%2520Road%25E2%2580%259D%2520

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16ED0390D649340A%402421995-16ECC166764061A9%404-16ECC166764061A9%40?search_terms=homeless&text=homeless&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=2&pdate=1919-02-05

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F9D444952A2BA0%402429921-16F9CB79A580C9A5%404-16F9CB79A580C9A5%40?search_terms=homeless&text=homeless&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=47&pdate=1940-10-18

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F878E8D73B9EE8%402430970-16F8736FEE3E27E1%400-16F8736FEE3E27E1%40?search_terms=homeless&text=homeless&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=52&pdate=1943-09-02

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F893DFE799C16C%402431630-16F8758C905200E5%400-16F8758C905200E5%40?search_terms=homeless&text=homeless&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=57&pdate=1945-06-23

The day after Thanksgiving in 2018 a bullet fired in a drive-by shooting struck Krystal Kompkoff while she was attending a party at a friend’s house. On this episode Krystal shares her journey of healing from violence.

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According to US News and World Report Anchorage, Alaska is the #3 most dangerous place to live in the United States. Alaska has had the reputation and reality of violence since the early days of the territory. On this episode we consider a couple of serial killers from Alaska’s past and Anchorage’s most violent year.

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/most-dangerous-places

https://www.vogue.com/article/best-true-crime-podcasts

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11691774/

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/murder-and-mystery-in-the-last-frontier/id1464610311

https://alaska-native-news.com/november-29th-1915/46015/

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1915-11-16/ed-1/seq-1/

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1915-11-30/ed-1/seq-1/

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2022/02/13/on-the-trail-of-alaskas-first-known-serial-killer/#:~:text=Edward%20Krause%20was%20Alaska's%20first,an%20Army%20detachment%20in%20Wrangell

https://auntphilstrunk.com/alaskas-first-serial-killer-strikes/

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1917-04-16/ed-1/seq-1/

https://www.seniorvoicealaska.com/story/2019/02/01/columns/uncovering-alaskas-first-serial-killer/1906.html

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16BC441A87385012%402445759-16BC43409D0A03D1%400-16BC43409D0A03D1%40?search_terms=%22Robert%2BHansen%22%2Bmurder&text=%22Robert%20Hansen%22%20murder&date_from=1970&date_to=1990&content_added=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&pdate=1984-02-28

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-1757613D7B60CCAB@2445759-175760986F149FF9@0?pdate=1984-02-28

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/robert-hansen-dies-at-75-convicted-alaska-serial-killer/2014/08/22/cf2d2acc-2989-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html

https://dps.alaska.gov/AST/PIO/PressReleases/Victim-of-Serial-Killer-Robert-Hansen-Identified-3

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A1445094F387BC7E2%40NGPA-AKADN-1757613D7B60CCAB%402445759-175557A1215A969B%4013-175557A1215A969B%40?search_terms=Robert%2BHansen&date_from=1970&date_to=1990&text=Robert%20Hansen&content_added=&pub%255B0%255D=1445094F387BC7E2&pdate=1984-02-28

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16BC441A87385012%402445759-16BC33FDF05E38A1%4011-16BC33FDF05E38A1%40?search_terms=Robert%2BHansen%2BMurder&date_from=1984&date_to=1984&text=Robert%20Hansen%20Murder&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&content_added=&sort=old&pdate=1984-02-28

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2018/01/05/with-35-homicides-in-2017-anchorage-set-a-disturbing-record-why/

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/02/13/years-later-an-inaccurate-homicide-record-in-alaskas-largest-city-has-been-corrected/

Boots, M.T., 2016, ‘Anchorage is on track to break the record for most homicides in one year. What is going on?’, Alaska Daily News, 3 September, 2016, viewed 19 February 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2016/09/03/anchorage-is-on-track-this- year-to-break-its-annual-homicide-record-whats-going-on/.

Boots, M.T., 2016a, ‘Anchorage’s deadly year: With 34 homicide victims, violence hits home’, Alaska Daily News, 31 December, 2016, viewed 28 January 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2016/12/31/anchorages-deadly-year-with-34- homicide-victims-violence-hits-home/.

Alaska Dispatch News, 2017, ‘Alaska Dispatch News poll: Crime’, Alaska Daily News, 18 January, 2017, viewed 19 February 2019, from https://www.adn.com/alaska- news/2017/01/18/alaska-dispatch-news-poll-crime/.

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/19508BE08478AF10?search_terms=2022%2BCrime&text=2022%20Crime&content_added=&date_from=2022&date_to=2023&pub%255B0%255D=ADNB&pdate=2023-10-31

Underground crime is not a thing of the past in Anchorage. One of those crimes is human trafficking. Join me on this episode as I talk with Josie Heyano of Signify Consulting, about what is possible in the area of human trafficking.

Heyano is a Presidentially appointed member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, a formal platform to advise and make recommendations on federal anti-trafficking policies to the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF).

https://www.signifyconsultingak.org

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/19/alaska-homeless-youth-sex-trafficking-study 

Anchorage has always had an underground of illegal activity. Those activities might have literally taken place underground in tunnels or basement bars, or they could have figuratively been underground thinly veiled behind words like “resort” or “boarding house.” On this episode we explore some of Anchorage’s underground past.

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.ghosttoursofanchorage.com/

https://www.adn.com/our-alaska/article/host-invites-curious-anchorages-spookiest-places/2011/05/07/

https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/empress-theater-1916-2013/

https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/news/archive/2015/05/the-seedy-sudsy-history-of-the-49th-state.cshtml

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2022/02/13/curious-alaska-is-there-a-prohibition-era-tunnel-network-in-downtown-anchorage/

https://www.muni.org/departments/ocpd/planning/publications/siteassets/pages/default/patterns%20of%20the%20past.pdf

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/05/17/history-of-spenard-how-a-squatter-bootlegger-and-showman-gave-anchorages-most-renowned-road-its-name/

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F87446A62E009E%402430437-16F6DD3AF3861BE9%405-16F6DD3AF3861BE9%40?search_terms=%22South%2BSeas%22&text=%22South%20Seas%22&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=20&pdate=1942-03-18

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F87446A62E009E%402430437-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%407-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%40?search_terms=%22South%2BSeas%22&text=%22South%20Seas%22&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=20&pdate=1942-03-18

https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/spenard-joseph-a-joe/

“Local Jottings about Town,” Anchorage Daily Times, June 26, 1916, 7.  Quoted from Michael Carberry and Donna Lane, Patterns of the Past:  An Inventory of Anchorage’s Historic Resources:  200.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/zula-swanson-1891-1973/

Collins, Jan MacKell. Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. United States, TwoDot, 2020.

https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/crocker-ulysses-grant-ug/

https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/exhibits/extra-tough-women-of-the-north/women-of-the-north-profiles/zula-swanson-savvy-businesswoman/

On this episode we consider what is possible in the area of substance misuse as we talk about recovery with Tiffany Hall. She shares with us her story of addiction and recovery. Hall is the Executive Director of Recover Alaska and the vice chair of the board of the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance.

https://recoveralaska.org/

https://www.facebook.com/recoveralaska

https://www.instagram.com/recoveralaska/

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://alaskamentalhealthtrust.org/alaska-mental-health-trust-authority/what-we-do/substance-abuse-prevention-and-treatment/

On this episode we will turn our attention to two different historical stories about mind altering substances…one the legal sale of beer, and the other, Alaska’s long history of semi-legal and legal marijuana.

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Hear Bill Howell read the section of Alaska Beer: Liquid Gold in the Land of the Midnight Sun about Prinz Brau here: https://www.kdll.org/show/drinking-on-the-last-frontier/2023-06-27/prinz-to-paupers

Howell, B. (2015). Alaska Beer: Liquid Gold in the Land of the Midnight Sun. United States: Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. Chapter 7

Watch the Alaska Review episode titled “Great Land, Great Beer, Great Problems” from 1977 here: Alaska Film Archive -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3hx7aSdCCo

https://law.justia.com/cases/alaska/supreme-court/1975/2135-1.html

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/irwin-ravin-alaska-marijuana-rights-activist-dies/2010/04/13/

https://www.adn.com/cannabis-north/article/alaska-weed-history/2014/04/14/

https://www.adn.com/cannabis-north/article/polls-close-legalized-pot-remains-question-mark-alaska/2014/11/05/

https://health.alaska.gov/dph/Director/Documents/marijuana/MarijuanaUse_PublicHealth_Alaska_2020.pdf

https://alaskapublic.org/2023/05/31/death-rate-from-drinking-nearly-doubles-in-alaska-over-2-years/

https://www.adn.com/features/article/dreaming-big-6-alaska-boondoggles/2011/10/10/

https://www.akgrownspirits.com/

https://www.turnagainbrewing.com/

It can often feel like racism and racial bias are impossible to overcome. Rev. Dr. Patricia Wilson-Cone joins us on this episode to help us consider what is possible in the area of racism and racial bias. Wilson-Cone is a pastor, scholar, chaplain trainer, and author. Her book Multicultural Diversity: Opening Our Hearts was released in 2019.

https://www.facebook.com/FirstAmericanBaptistChurch/

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.bates.edu/news/2017/10/26/kendi/

https://genius.com/Malcolm-x-chapter-19-1965-annotated

When Lin-Manuel Miranda said of his hit musical “This is a story about America then, told by America now” he could not have known how much that connects with the history of Anchorage. When Alaskans packed the Alaska Performing Arts Center to see Hamilton recently many did not know how that building represents the city’s resistance to the diversity of America and Anchorage now.

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Glavinic, T., 2014, ‘Remembering Elizabeth Peratrovich: Alaska’s civil rights legacy’, Alaska Commons, 17 February, 2014, viewed 30 January 2019, from http://www.alaskacommons.com/2014/02/17/remembering-elizabeth-peratrovich/

http://albertaschenckadams.com/

Schenck, A., 1944, ‘To whom it may concern’, Nome Nugget, 3 March, 1944, viewed 30 January 2019, from https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg21/id/2057/ 

For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska 2009 - DVD

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https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/15/us/anchorage-journal-center-for-performing-arts-is-off-to-a-sour-start.html

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Hartman, I.C., Reamer, D., 2022. Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

 https://www.muni.org/departments/ocpd/planning/publications/anchorage%20economic%20indicators/03-2012indicators-anchorage%20demographics.pdf

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https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/martin-luther-king-avenue-opens-wednesday/2010/08/03/

Over the past three years we have explored the issues facing Anchorage, the places where things are, or are becoming, the way they are supposed to be for all people, and the hydra that is homelessness. In season 4 we will consider “What is possible?”

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/731660780/one-giant-leap-explores-the-herculean-effort-behind-the-1969-moon-landing

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2021/10/24/in-the-1950s-the-race-to-bring-television-to-alaska-was-marked-by-anticipation-suspense-and-mishaps/

https://www.rice.edu/jfk-speech#:~:text=%22We%20choose%20to%20go%20to,on%20the%20Moon%20before%201970

https://www.anchoragememories.com/anchorage-television-was-two-weeks-old.html

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/apollo-11-moon-landing#:~:text=As%20an%20estimated%20650%20million,and%20photographing%20the%20lunar%20surface

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2009/jul/02/apollo-moon-eagle-has-landed

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armstrong_Small_Step.ogg