S1-E3: What is this Place? Part 1: A Mountain, a Hill, and a Tower

2020-10-26

What is Anchorage? In this episode we consider Anchorage as a place by examining its history while stopping at three locations in the city: a mountain, a hill, and a tower.How would you answer the question "What is Anchorage?" Give us your answer on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC. Resources used to make this episode: Downing Carlson, Phyllis., Downing Bill, Laurel. Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three, 1912-1935: Bringing Alaska's History Alive!. N.p.: Aunt Ph...

What is Anchorage?

In this episode we consider Anchorage as a place by examining its history while stopping at three locations in the city: a mountain, a hill, and a tower.

How would you answer the question "What is Anchorage?"

Give us your answer on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC.

Resources used to make this episode:

Downing Carlson, Phyllis., Downing Bill, Laurel. Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three, 1912-1935: Bringing Alaska's History Alive!. N.p.: Aunt Phil's Trunk LLC, 2014.
Jasper, P.B., & Blasongame, B.M., 1983, A gathering of saints in Alaska: An informal chronicle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the State of Alaska, Hiller Industries, Salt Lake City.
O’Malley, J., 2007, ‘Common ground’, Anchorage Daily News, 27 August, 2007, p. A1.
https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/tourism-in-alaskas-past/
https://www.muni.org/departments/ocpd/planning/documents/npop97.pdf
https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/15000843.htm
https://www.muni.org/Departments/OCPD/Planning/Publications/Historic%20Preservation%20Plan/05-HPP-HistoricContxtSurveys.pdf
http://www.anchoragecreeks.org/media/publications/Campbell_Creek_History.pdf
https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/chugach/about-forest
https://www.portofalaska.com/about-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Anchorage,_Alaska
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska