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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Voices chatter and drums beat while hundreds of people gathered in a drive through lot next to a tribal carving shed in Wrangell on a warm, clear July day. Their eyes watched about 50 people crouched down to wooden beams on the ground, beneath a two-ton red cedar totem pole. The lead carver of this new pole instructs those standing next to the beams.
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Episode 62: Wrangell’s Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tracey Martin spoke with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki about this year’s 69th annual Fish Derby. Participants began fishing for King and Coho on July 17 and it ends August 17. The halibut derby begins Aug. 14 for only four days, ending also on Aug. 17.
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