Wrangell Public Schools begins school Thursday and the new superintendent, Joshua Garrett, has been in the office since early July preparing.
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Episode 64: Wrangell Public School teacher Laura Davies and documentary filmmaker and photographer Brian Hockenstein from British Columbia met earlier this year at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. She brought two of her students who made documentaries to the festival. Shortly after meeting, she asked Hockenstein to visit Wrangell during the summer and work with the students for a week on visual media. In June, he sailed to the island from Vancouver and worked with the students in late July. Davies also organized a film screening at The Nolan Center during that week on a variety of Hockenstein’s work, where he talked to the community about the process and his experience making those films.
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Episode 63: Wrangell photographer Hannah Bean has been behind a camera for the past 15 years. Just last year she started her photography business, Hannah Bean Photography. She stopped by KSTK on Aug. 12 to talk with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki on her journey and why photography resonates with her so much.
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Ancestors of local Tlingit residents carved the petroglyph into a dark gray shale piece. It’s about 3 feet by 2.5 feet. It shows a face, with circular eyes and a lebret marking below the bottom lip. But, somebody last month destroyed the historic rock art that’s likely hundreds to thousands of years old.
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Singer-songwriter Dara Rilatos is the voice behind Juneau-based soul-funk band The Planktonics. But her musical roots go back to her childhood in Wrangell.
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