This Day in Alaska History-September 18th, 1915
This Day in Alaska History-September 17th, 1868
A guide to the Alaska that was (is)
In 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Federal Writers’ Project. His goal was to provide jobs for American writers who found themselves unemployed after the stock market crash of 1929. Merle Colby was one of those writers. As the U.S. economy tanked, his freelance work for the […]