Tag: Nolan Center

Talk on the Rock: Deep sea diver Gig Decker on The Nolan Center’s 20th anniversary celebration, Friends of the Museum and diving at shipwreck sites.

Episode 30: Gig Decker, who is a Friends of the Museum Board member, spoke with KSTK’s News Director Colette Czarnecki about his experience with deep sea diving around shipwrecks, including the Star of Bengal. He also shared why history is so important and how The Nolan Center is integral to safekeeping Wrangell’s history. The Nolan Center’s 20th anniversary celebration will be held Monday, Oct. 14 at 6p.m. at The Nolan Center. Decker goes into what’s to be expected at the potluck event.

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Nolan Center unveils repatriated Tlingit objects this weekend

A brown tobacco pipe sits in a display case – it’s about the length of two hands and features inlayed blue minerals from abalone shells. It has two faces looking away from each other and the shank stretches up in the center – it tells a story of the Gunakadeit, which is a sea monster in Tlingit culture. It’s one of four repatriated Tlingit clan objects that the Nolan Center is showcasing.

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Wrangell will show Blue Ticket: a play about the disappearance of Juneau’s gay men in the ’60s.

Wrangell’s Nolan Center will host Blue Ticket on Monday. It’s a film of a play with the same name that KTOO documented back in 2019. The play’s author, Maureen Longworth, documented how gay men in Juneau were exiled from the city in the 1960s. KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki spoke with Longworth about that time and the process of making the story.

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