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: Teens talk about coping with COVID
Former high school seniors Kayden King, Shaun Peter, and Thomas Phelan in Bethel. (Katie Basile/KYUK)
On this week’s Hometown Alaska, Anchorage teens describe how they have suffered, endured, and even…
Hometown Alaska: The UAA Women’s basketball program succeeds through mayhem and more
Seawolf, logo for UAA athletics,courtesy of UAA.
The UAA Women’s basketball program is elite. Conference champs, sweet 16 appearances, perennial national championship contender, and of course – mayhem…
Hometown Alaska: Hear how these Anchorage arts organizations adapted to the pandemic
Andrea Noble, executive director of the Alaska State Council on the Arts, has one word for the Alaska artists and arts organizations now tackling Year Three of life under Covid: “Resilient. They just…
Hometown Alaska: Hear how one Anchorage entrepreneur manages work and motherhood during the pandemic
Anchorage-based entrepreneur LeeAnna Chronister is a mother and artist who has operated several small businesses and community projects (Image provided by LeeAnna Chronister)
The gig economy isn’t exa…
Community groups meet Covid vaccine hesitancy with trusted voices and accurate information
The opening image to a slideshow in Spanish aimed at providing accurate information to the Latin community on Covid and vaccinations. Find the full slideshow here.
January 2022 marks the world’s third…
Hometown Alaska: Food is love without the words. So what do you cook and eat with the ones you love?
In this 2007 photo, a sailor shares his Thanksgiving meal with his baby son at a special event aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan in San Diego. Storekeeper 1st Class Andy Zhang serves his son …
Hometown Alaska: You might have noticed a lot of Filipino health care workers in Alaska. Here’s why.
Red Cross nurses in the Philippines. (Photo via WikimediaCommons)
If you’ve ever been to a hospital or a medical clinic or some type of medical facility, which most of us probably have, you may have n…
Hometown Alaska: From dog poop to plastics – what can you really compost and recycle in Anchorage?
The Anchorage landfill countdown on the municipality’s web page shows less than 50 years of capacity. Recycling and composting keeps reusable items out of the landfill. What do you need to know, and …
Hometown Alaska: Native Heritage Month can bring complex emotions for Indigenous people. Here are three perspectives.
Taquka’aq B-Duk Took Drum Group at the Alaska Native Heritage Center (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media)
Since 1990, federal, state, and local governments have recognized November as Native Heritage Month…
Hometown Alaska: Despite the isolation, fan culture thrives in Anchorage
Cosplayers at Senshi Con, Alaska’s largest fandom convention, spent the day as their favorite comic book and anime characters last weekend at the Dena’ina Center. (Photo by Ammon Swenson)
In Alaska po…
Hometown Alaska: Indigenous Peoples’ Day can be celebrated all year. Here’s how.
The Tagiumiut Dancers perform at the 2019 Alaska Federation of Natives Conference at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks. (Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
Indigenous Peoples’ Day strikes the interse…
Hometown Alaska: Filipino history in Alaska runs deeper than you might expect.
The month of October has been recognized by the U.S. Congress and by several state legislatures as Filipino American History Month, to celebrate the long history of Filipinos in the United States. Wh…
LISTEN: Celebrating Recovery Month in Alaska
(Image from Flickr)
Addiction and recovery are two sides of a heavy coin. September is National Recovery Month, so this week on Hometown Alaska, we’ll learn how substance addiction contributes to reci…
LISTEN: Discussing food culture in Alaska
Jeff Bumagat-Hidalgo, co-owner-manager at Jeepney Filipino Hawaiian Fusion Food, prepares an order of butter garlic shrimp on a weekday afternoon in April. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media)
Alaska’s foo…
Listen: Finding the untapped talent in Alaska’s immigrants and refugees
Cover of Welcoming Anchorage’s roadmap manual. (Courtesy of Welcoming Anchorage)
Alaska’s ethnic and cultural diversity has grown significantly as more immigrants and refugees make Alaska their home. …
New anthology: 25 years of Alaska women’s voices
This cover of the new “Alaska Women Speak” anthology is artwork by Teresa Ascone that first graced the cover of the WINTER 2014 journal.
Ember Press, a Palmer-based small independent publisher special…
Two first books by young Alaska writers
‘One Headlight’ by Matt Caprioli and ‘Pluto Cove’ by Arran Forbes.
UPDATE: Writer Matt Caprioli, featured in this episode, has changed his last name to Frye Castillo. His website can be found here.
Ho…
Juneteenth: What, why, and beyond
The Juneteenth flag was raised on June 11, 2021, at Anchorage City Hall. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media)
Juneteenth has been called America’s second Independence Day. But surveys show only about half …
Alaska Version 3 asks us to imagine our collective future. You go first.
What if our latest conversations about Alaska didn’t lodge on the dollar amount of a PFD, or how much a budget should be cut? What if we leaped over these sticking points and employed our collective …
Book love: Updates from Alaska Center for the Book and Anchorage Reads
The stand of a bouquiniste, the French term for second-hand books resellers, in Paris, near the Cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris. Books are as popular in Alaska and in Anchorage as they are in Paris, th…