Hometown, Alaska - Alaska Public Media
Hometown, Alaska features conversations with local civic and cultural leaders, educators, and community members making an impact on their city. Hosted by: Anne Hillman, O’Hara Shipe, and Dave Waldron
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 141
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Hometown Alaska: Playing with sound at the Anchorage Museum's Pass the Mic exhibit
GUEST HOST: Dave Waldron
GUEST: Cody Carver, Program and Events Manager at the Anchorage Museum
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Hometown Alaska: Alaska Center for the Book is working to increase awareness of Native authors
HOST: Anne Hillman
GUESTS:
Barbara and Ethan Jacko Atwater, mother/son writing partners, authors of multiple children’s books and more
Sara Juday, co-president of the board, Alaska Center for the Book
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Hometown Alaska: Making housing accessible to everyone
HOST: Anne Hillman
Guests:
Abdelqader "Abdoo" Ezzedine, New Habitat for Humanity homeowner
John Frommer, Consruction Manager, Habitat for Humanity
Jasmine Boyle, Chief Operating Officer, Rural Alaska Co…
Hometown Alaska: Touring the Alaska Museum of Science and Nature
HOST: Justin Williams
GUESTS:
Dr. Elizabeth Whitney, executive director, Alaska Museum of Science and Nature
Dr. Kristine Crossen, president, board of directors, Alaska Museum of Science and Nature
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Hometown Alaska: Answering your questions about this year’s election
Host: Anne Hillman
GUESTS:
Gail Fenumiai, Division of Elections
Jeannette Lee, Sightline Institute
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Hometown Alaska: Staying active in recovery as winter approaches
HOST: Justin Williams
GUESTS:
Tiffany Hall, executive director of Recover Alaska
Dr. Vivian Gonzales, professor of psychology at the University of Alaska Anchorage
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Hometown Alaska: Telling Alaska's story
This week Hometown Alaska hosts three writers telling significant parts of Alaska’s story.
The idea for our show began with the hope of bringing Alaska’s current writer laureate, Heather Lende, to the…
Hometown Alaska: The Alaska Beer Broads
The Last Frontier is known for its appreciative beer subculture. The craft has been honored here and its processes mimicked in garages and storefronts alike. Alaska Beer Broads is an all-female, Alas…
Hometown Alaska: Alaskan Footprints food tours and Anchorage Independent Worker Alliance
Business and the economy are ever-changing in Alaska. As life becomes more expensive and old models of creating revenue streams are met with apprehensive resolve, two local entrepreneurs set out to c…
Hometown Alaska: Meet the Log Cabin Quilters and find out what they do with all the quilts they create
With winter coming on, maybe you need a cozy, creative activity you can do with friends that adds up to something beautiful?
Poster for this year’s Great Alaska Quilt Show, their first after a 2-year …
Hometown Alaska: What’s new 7 years after voters said yes to legal marijuana
Hometown Alaska: Tiny museum in Chugiak honors Lithuania’s fierce independence
The night of Soviet killings of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania. An unarmed Lithuanian citizen stands against a Soviet tank. Wikimedia Commons image by photographer Andrius Petrulevicius, Lith…
Spenard Jazz Fest 2022
The Spenard area of Alaska is known for its eclecticism and diversity amongst its people, businesses, and artistic sensibilities. Long has it been the host of Tommy’s Burger Stop, Chilkoot Charlies, …
Hometown Alaska: Kick start your growing season with free mentors from Anchor Gardens
Used with permission from Anchor Gardens, a free mentoring service for gardeners aimed at building tighter neighborhoods and folks who know how to grow food.
Depending on where you live, the snow is f…
Hometown Alaska: How can we push back against youth homelessness?
Photo via Pexels
The fight against youth homelessness oftentimes feels like an invisible war. We see adults commonly wandering the streets in makeshift families, on the path to survival and, ideally, …
Hometown Alaska: How to flatten the disinformation curve
Graphic from World Health Organization in its public campaign against disinformation.
Here’s a new word for you: infodemic. The World Health Organization coined the term and centered a recent global c…
Hometown Alaska: Sobriety Awareness Month
Image from Flickr
The month of April is many things to many people: Aries season, Easter eggs, spring cleaning. To a lot of people in Alaska, though, April is also Sobriety Awareness Month. Alaska’s h…
Hometown Alaska: Meeting vaccine hesitancy one client at a time
Community Health Workers with the Alaska Primary Care Association are deeply involved in the communities where they work. As such, they can be trusted guides to help under-served communities find bet…
Hometown Alaska: The Fairview Rec Center has more to offer than you might think
The Fairview Community Recreation Center recently opened an indoor playground (Photo courtesy of Anchorage Parks and Recreation).
The Fairview Community Recreational Center has been a community staple…
Hometown Alaska: Black history and education in Alaska
Book cover of “Black History in the Last Frontier” by University of Alaska Anchorage history professor Ian Hartman.
It’s February and Black History month is in full effect in Alaska. But what if educa…