Best The Anchorage Urban Training Collaborative Podcasts (2025)

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BTS 37: Day of Storytelling for the Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet - Part 2 - w/ Joel Kiekintveld 8:43

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On Saturday, November 8, 2025, there will be a Day of Storytelling for the Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet as part of an effort to have our area designated as a National Heritage Area. At that event, more than fifty "storytellers from across the Anchorage-Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet area are coming together to reflect on who we’ve been, who we are now, and…

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S5: E1 – North To The Future: Season 5 Introduction 11:48

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S5: E1 – North To The Future: Season 5 Introduction This episode is the first of a new season. In Season 5 we will be considering the Alaska State Motto – “North to the Future” as a model for how we positively think about the future. #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Resources Used I Make Thi…

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BTS 36: Returning to The Hydra of Homelessness – Micro-Unit Housing 37:22

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BTS 36: Returning to The Hydra of Homelessness – Micro-Unit Housing Season three of this podcast was titled “The Hydra of Homelessness.” In that season, back in 2022, we looked at a number of different issues connected to homelessness to get a more complete view of the complexity of that issue. On this episode we are returning to the Hydra of Homel…

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BTS 35: Day of Storytelling for the Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet w/ Jasmine Redgrave & Taylor Strelevitz 25:33

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On Saturday November 8, 2025 there will be a Day of Storytelling for the Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet as part of an effort to have our area designated as a National Heritage Area. At that event more than fifty "storytellers from across the Anchorage-Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet area are coming together to reflect on who we’ve been, who we are now, and wh…

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The Dashboard Diaries #4: Wenatchee, WA 20:35

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The Dashboard Diaries #4: Wenatchee, WA It can be hard for Alaskans to feel connected to the rest of the country. I recently went on a nearly coast to coast drive with my daughter and her family as they moved from South Carolina to Washington State. As we drove 500-mile days for a week a few connections between places on our drive and my home city …

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Season 5 (Coming Soon) – The Dashboard Diaries – The Hydra of Homelessness 2:55

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You are invited to end the summer by going on a road trip with us on the Dashboard Diaries – brush up on the topic of homelessness with “The Hydra of Homelessness” – and look forward to Season 5: “North to the Future.” #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Sounds used: https://pixabay.com/music/m…

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The Dashboard Diaries #3: Twin Falls, ID 29:11

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It can be hard for Alaskans to feel connected to the rest of the country. I recently went on a nearly coast to coast drive with my daughter and her family as they moved from South Carolina to Washington State. As we drove 500-mile days for a week a few connections between places on our drive and my home city of Anchorage emerged. Welcome to the Das…

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BTS 34: Rainiers in Anchorage - BONUS 10:28

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Anchorage’s desire to be a Minor League city goes back further than you might imagine. Join us a for a bit more as a bonus to our recent episode. #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Resources Used I Make This Episode: https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F88BB…

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BTS 33: Rainiers in Anchorage 23:42

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Anchorage has had its share of minor league sports teams over the years – The Northern Knights of the Continental Basketball Association, the Anchorage Aces Hockey team, and the short-lived Arena Football team the Wild – but it has never had a professional baseball team. However, one team was a frequent guest in Alaska’s largest city back in the la…

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The Dashboard Diaries #2: Kansas City, MO - BONUS 15:01

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There was just too much to fit in the last episode of The Dashboard Diaries! On this episode we consider another way the history of black baseball connects Kansas City, MO and Anchorage. #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Theme Music by Tech Oasis from Pixabay Resources Used To Make This Episo…

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The Dashboard Diaries #2: Kansas City, MO 41:00

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It can be hard for Alaskans to feel connected to the rest of the country. I recently went on a nearly coast to coast drive with my daughter and her family as they moved from South Carolina to Washington State. As we drove 500-mile days for a week a few connections between places on our drive and my home city of Anchorage emerged. Welcome to the Das…

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BTS 32: Summer Music Special w/ Travis Carbaugh and Pepper Kit 52:51

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Summer time means a lot of different things in Alaska. Camping, fishing, hiking and for many it also means live music. On this episode I’m talking to two Anchorage musicians that you might see at a show this summer. Pepper Kit is a local singer-songwriter and one of the folks behind the popular Girl Crush events. Travis Carbaugh is a guitarist that…

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BTS: 31 – The Alaska Myth w/ Kaitlin Armstrong 51:19

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BTS: 31 – The Alaska Myth w/ Kaitlin Armstrong May 26, 2025 Alaskans are serious about who is a real Alaskan and who isn’t. The pursuit of understanding who is a real Alaskan is more often than not tied to a Frontier mentality and the legend that has been created around the 49th State. The mythology of Alaska is the topic of the award-winning podca…

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The Dashboard Diaries #1: Greenville, SC 48:04

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The Dashboard Diaries #1: Greenville, SC May 19, 2025 Alaska feels a bit removed from the rest of the United States because it is separated from the contiguous 48 states by a minimum of 500 mile. Anchorage is even further away. That distance can leave residents not only distinct and different, but often detached. It can be hard for Alaskans to feel…

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The Dashboard Diaries – Starting May 19 4:21

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The Dashboard Diaries – Starting May 19 May 16, 2025 This summer on the AnchorED City Podcast we are proud to present The Dashboard Diaries. During this four-part mini-series we will connect with Anchorage’s soul through her histories, stories, and people by connecting to places along the road from our drive across this vast land of ours. The serie…

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The Dashboard Diaries - COMING SOON! 6:40

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The Dashboard Diaries – Coming Soon May 12, 2025 This summer on the AnchorED City Podcast we are proud to present The Dashboard Diaries. This four-part mini-series connects with Anchorage’s soul through her histories, stories, and people by connecting to places along the road from a nearly coast-to-coast drive across the vast lower 48. #anchoredcit…

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ACCEE Series #3: w/ Trevor Storrs & Jessica Simonsen 31:55

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ACCEE Series #3: w/ Trevor Storrs & Jessica Simonsen April 21, 2025 Last year we talked twice with members of the Anchorage Child Care and Early Education Fund implementation team. During 2024 they were doing research, hearing from the community, and making recommendations to the Anchorage Assembly about how to spend the $5 million dollars of marij…

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ACCEE Series #2: w/ Trevor Storrs & Austin Quinn-Davidson 46:19

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Back on April of this year I talked with members of the Anchorage Child Care and Early Education Fund implementation team. At that time they were doing research and hearing from the community about how to spend the $5 million dollars of marijuana tax money earmarked for Child Care and Early Education made possible by Proposition 14 in 2023. They ha…

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BTS: 30 – A Hall of Fame Player in Anchorage 15:54

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There have been a good number of Major Leaguers to have their start in Alaska playing summer college baseball. Only two are in the Hall of Fame – Tom Seaver and Dave Winfield. But before there ever was summer college baseball in the state, one Hall of Fame player spent a part of their early career in Alaska. For that story we need to go back to 194…

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BTS: 29 – Not Just Passing Through Fairview w/ Allen Kemplen, Bryan Hawkins & Lindsey Hajduk 1:08:36

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The neighborhood of Fairview, on the Northside of Anchorage, is considered one of Anchorage’s original four neighborhoods along with Downtown, South Addition and Mountain View. However, what is less known is that Fairview was once its own individual town independent of Anchorage. Today most Anchorage residents don’t think about Fairview too much. I…

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BTS: 28 – First Female Mayor - Encore Episode 16:58

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Anchorage has its first elected female mayor. In light of the election of Suzaane LaFrance as Anchorage’s mayor we are returning to a previous episode - S2:E10: Anchorage, Boston, Elections and All Male Mayors – which outlines the city’s history of electing only men to the Anchorage’s top office. #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.f…

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ACCEE Fund Series #1: w/ Trevor Storrs, Kathleen McArdle & Jessica Simonsen 42:55

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In April of 2023 Anchorage Voters passed Proposition 14 by a 12-point margin. That proposition dedicates marijuana tax money to child care and early child care education – estimated to be between $4 & $6 million per year. These funds seem to come at just the right time. Due to the scarcity of programs as well as the cost of care and lack of high-qu…

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BTS: 27 – The Truth About Fentanyl - Part 2 31:22

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Fentanyl is a dangerous drug that is killing Alaskans. In a report released in September of 2023 about drug overdose deaths in Alaska it was noted that “Fentanyl was involved in four out of five opioid overdose deaths, and many of these fentanyl-involved overdose deaths involved an additional substance, such as methamphetamine or heroin.” On this e…

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BTS: 26 – The Truth About Fentanyl - Part 1 20:32

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Fentanyl is a dangerous drug that is killing Alaskans. In a report released in September of 2023 about drug overdose deaths in Alaska it was noted that “Fentanyl was involved in four out of five opioid overdose deaths, and many of these fentanyl-involved overdose deaths involved an additional substance, such as methamphetamine or heroin.” On this e…

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S4:E12 – What is Possible?: Necessary / Possible / Impossible 6:29

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St Francis of Assisi is quoted as saying, “Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” On this episode we end season 4 by considering how each of us moves forward into doing the impossible. #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Resources U…

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BTS: 25 – Christmas Special: Gingerbread Village and the Building of a City 8:28

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Chef Joe Hickel has created his last gingerbread village and it gives us a way to make our city a better place. https://www.captaincookchristmas.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hotel-Captain-Cook/121352828027525 @thehotelcaptaincook #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Resources Used to Make…

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S4:E11 – What is Possible?: Creative Community Responses To Homelessness w/ Undra Parker & Matt Schultz 41:36

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On this episode we ask “What is Possible?” in the area of homelessness and receive two creative, community-based responses from Pastors Undra Parker and Matt Shultz. https://www.shilohmbcalaska.org/ https://www.facebook.com/shiloh.alaska.5 https://firstpresanchorage.org/ https://www.facebook.com/FPChurchAnch @fpchurchanch https://christianhealth.or…

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S4:E10 – What is Possible?: Digging Through The Archives For Some Anchorage Homeless History 12:43

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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 …

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S4:E9 – What is Possible?: Healing from Violence w/ Krystal Kompkoff 36:49

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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. #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC…

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S4:E8– What is Possible?: Serial Killers and Anchorage’s Most Violent Year 19:04

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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. #anchoredcity https://anchorage…

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S4:E7– What is Possible?: Human Trafficking w/ Josie Heyano 53:04

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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 plat…

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S4:E6 – What is Possible?: Tunnels and Two Lakes - Anchorage’s Underground Past 20:55

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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. #anchoredcity https://…

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S4:E5 - What Is Possible?: Recovery w/ Tiffany Hall 39:03

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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/re…

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S4:E4 - What Is Possible?: Decriminalized Marijuana, a Defunct Brewery & Substance Use in Alaska 19:50

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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. #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Resources Used to Make This Episode: Hear Bill Ho…

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S4:E3 – What is Possible?: Racial Bias w/ Patricia Wilson-Cone 35:42

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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:…

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S4:E2 – Martin Luther King Jr., Hamilton, The PAC and Racism in Anchorage 13:50

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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 …

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S4:E1– Introducing Season 4 14:05

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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?” #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Resource…

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BTS - 24: What is the Connection Between Seattle and Anchorage? 19:38

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I recently flew to Seattle, on one of the routes Alaska Air flies known as a milk run. It was a long, slow, and interesting way to fly to Seattle. But the connection between Seattle and Alaska has always included long, slow, interesting journeys. #anchoredcity https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Resources Us…

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BTS 23 – Digging in the Archives with Becky Butler 35:54

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On the third floor of the UAA/APU Library are boxes lining row after row of shelves filled with bits of Alaska’s history. On this episode we visit the UAA/APU Consortium Library Archive with our host Becky Butler. https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ConsortiumLibraryArchives https://www.facebook.com/ConsortiumLibrary @ …

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BTS 22 – Silver Bullets, Sell Out Crowds, and a 10-10 Tie 16:20

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What likely springs to mind when one thinks of women's baseball is the 1992 movie, "A League of their Own," starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. Yet the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was neither the beginning nor the end of women's baseball. On this episode we'll explore women's baseball in the city of Anchorage. #anchoredcity http…

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BTS 21 – Solving the Jack Sturgus Cold Case w/ Dr. Laura Koenig and Rick Goodfellow 50:42

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Back in February of 1921 Anchorage’s first Police Chief was found in an alley with a gunshot wound after just 51 days on the job. For 100 years the death of Jack Sturgus remained a mystery. Have Dr. Laura Koenig and Rick Goodfellow solved this century-old cold-case? In this episode we find out. Dr. Laura Koenig: Artistic Director for the Anchorage …

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BTS 20 – The Tale of Two Statues 14:41

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Perhaps the most prominent statue in downtown is the one of Captain Cook at Resolution Point. A lesser-known statue stands at the Ship Creek Boat Launch and depicts Grandma Olga. Join us on this episode for the story of these two statues. #anchoredcity https://anchoredcity.podbean.com https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @…

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BTS 19 – What is the Connection Between Montreal and Anchorage? 16:46

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When I travel to other cities I often play a little game. I ask, how does this city connect with Anchorage? So what is the connection between Montreal, Quebec and Anchorage, Alaska? #anchoredcity https://anchoredcity.podbean.com https://anchorageutc.org https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC @AnchorageUTC Resources Used to Make This Episode: https:/…

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BTS 18 – Winter Sports 5: From the Trailer Park to the World Cup w/ Naomi Kiekintveld 47:02

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BTS 18 – Winter Sports 5: From the Trailer Park to the World Cup w/ Naomi Kiekintveld We have all heard the stories of Anchorage kids who have grown up skiing in the city and ended up racing at the highest levels of the sport, but what about those that chose a different route – coaching? On this episode we are talking to Naomi Kiekintveld who took …

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BTS 17 – Winter Sports 4: The History of the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage w/ Alice Tower Knapp 55:39

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BTS 17 – Winter Sports 4: The History of the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage w/ Alice Tower Knapp In a recent review of the book “On Track! The Nordic Ski Association of Anchorage” Chris Bieri wrote in the Anchorage Daily News: “There aren’t many people better positioned to tell the story of the growth and expansion of cross-country skiing i…

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BTS 16 – Winter Sports 3: Anchorage’s Most Well-Known Curler: Jessica Schultz 25:45

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Is there a better way to follow up an episode about curling in Anchorage than a conversation with the city’s most famous curler? We don’t think so. On this episode we talk to 2 time Olympian and 3-time national champion curler Jessica Schultz. #anchoredcity https://www.curlak.com https://www.facebook.com/curlAK @curlalaska @rockthis1life Info. on C…

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BTS 15 – Winter Sports 2: Curling 34:04

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Ever wondered about the sport of curling - you know, the sport that throws rocks at houses and includes brooms and a fair bit of shouting? Our second episode on Winter Sports dials in on the experience of curling at the Anchorage Curling Club in Government Hill! #anchoredcity https://anchoragecurling.com/ https://www.facebook.com/anchoragecurlingcl…

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BTS 14 – Winter Sports 1: Once Upon A Time In Forest Park 15:11

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The Westchester Lagoon area has been the home for winter sports since before the Lagoon even existed. Near Westchester Lagoon, just up the hill to the south was a hot spot for sports and social life in Anchorage during the years following World War II. Winter sports – both competitive and social - bring people together in the dark cold winter month…

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BTS 13 - Black Lives in Alaska w/ Ian Hartman and David Reamer 1:02:32

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On this between the seasons episode we are celebrating Black History Month by talking with Ian Hartman and David Reamer who authored the book “Black Lives In Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest.” Ian C. Hartman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alaska Anchorage. David Reamer is a public historian and jou…

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BTS 12 - Christmas Special: An Empress, Some Elk, a Box Office Flop, and Peace on Earth 11:34

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On this special between the seasons episode we look at Anchorage’s Christmas’ past, present and future. #anchoredcity Resources Used to Make This Episode: https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/12/23/in-times-old-and-new-christmas-reminds-us-were-here-in-alaska-together/# https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/empress-theater-1916-2013/ http:/…