Tonight's Topic: "North To Alaska" -- Part 1"
ANSWERS = [ B - A - C ]
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We're back!... from sunny Alaska!
We would like you to join us in thanking Bryan [K6CBR] for graciously hosting last Friday night's Net.
Bryan's generosity and willingness to help, allowed us a chance to enjoy an extended vacation with Shelley's family in Seward, Alaska.
And, as you can no doubt tell -- by us being here tonight -- we returned home safely and there is still gold in dem dar Alaskan hills -- Dabnabit!
So, how much do you (non-Alaskans) know about them?
Accordingly, please choose your answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each question.
++ Tonight's Topic: "North To Alaska" -- Part 1 ++
A. 75 years old (founded 1940), or
B. 100 years old (founded 1915), or
C. 125 years old (founded 1890)
Anchorage celebrates its 100-year anniversary in 2015, and events to
celebrate are already swinging. The Anchorage Centennial commemorates
the founding of Anchorage in 1915, but celebrations reach much farther
back into the full breadth of Anchorage history. There are more than 100
years' worth of good reasons to celebrate.
[SOURCE: Official Guide to ANCHORAGE ALASKA and Surrounding Areas (VisitAnchorage.com) -- Anchorage Centennial Celebration]
Question
#2:
Sometimes, when U.S. Citizens from the "other 49 States"
visit Alaska, they may still
need their U.S. passport in order to enter Alaska -- Trickyue
or False?[SOURCE: Official Guide to ANCHORAGE ALASKA and Surrounding Areas (VisitAnchorage.com) -- Anchorage Centennial Celebration]
A. True, or
B. False
U.S. citizens flying between another state and Alaska do not need a
passport.
However, those driving through Canada or traveling on a ferry or cruise ship with stops in Canada are required to carry one.
All non U.S. citizens will need a passport and possibly other documents to enter.
As with all travel, check with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and theTransportation Security Administration as you plan your trip.
[SOURCE: Official Guide to ANCHORAGE ALASKA and Surrounding Areas (VisitAnchorage.com) -- Do I need a passport to get to Alaska? ]
Question
#3: Unhappy with the Post Office
arbitarily naming
their settlement "Anchorage", the
settlers got a chance -- during
their first school board election -- to
vote on the name for their unnamed settlement.
What was the
most
popular name voted for?However, those driving through Canada or traveling on a ferry or cruise ship with stops in Canada are required to carry one.
All non U.S. citizens will need a passport and possibly other documents to enter.
As with all travel, check with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and theTransportation Security Administration as you plan your trip.
[SOURCE: Official Guide to ANCHORAGE ALASKA and Surrounding Areas (VisitAnchorage.com) -- Do I need a passport to get to Alaska? ]
B. Anchorage, or
C. Alaska City, Alaska
"Frederick
Mears (Commissioner for the Alaskan Engineering Commission) even asked
the Cook Inlet Pioneer (newspaper) to conduct a contest to choose a
name for th still nameless settlement.
In the first school board election on August 2, 1916, voters also got a chance to vote on a choice of nine names.
Folklore, now embedded in many Anchorage histories, tells us Anchorage won handily, apparently since most people felt it was the port which influenced the railroad to establish its headquarters here. Not so, according to records of the Alaskan Engineering Commission dug up by M. Dianer Brenner, archivist for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
The document shows that the top vote getter was Alaska City at 146 votes. Second in the voting was Lane (in honor of the then-secretary of interior), with 129. Anchorage came in third, with 101 ballots, about nineteen percent of the total votes cast. Then came Matanuska, which had great visibility because of its identity with the nearby coal fields. The other names on the ballot were Gateway, Ship Creek, Homestead, Terminal, and Winalaska.
It appears that the U.S. Post Office arbitrarily had named the new settlement Anchorage. The Chamber of Commerce tried to change the name to Alaska City to be consistent with the vote...."
[SOURCE: John Strohmeyer: Historic Anchorage: An Illustrated History, p.12]
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" Prior to 1915, the area had been called Ship Creek or occasionally Knik Anchorage, in reference to the village of Knik across Knik Arm from the Creek. Lighters and small boats used to unload steamers sometimes called it Ship Creek Landing. The US Post Office was responsible for giving the town the name "Anchorage" in April 1915. By August citizens were given the opportunity to vote on a permanent name for the settlement. Suggested were Matanuska, Alaska City, Ship Creek, Winalaska, Gateway, Anchorage, Terminal, Homestead and Lane. School board members and the Chamber of Commerce conducted a poll. The name "Alaska City" was the majority choice. However, the federal bureaucracy being what it was, "Anchorage" was in the books and too difficult to change."
[SOURCE: B63.16.6 - Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center]
A Special Thank You to Shelley's Dad, Ben, for
providing
the ANSWER sequence tonight.In the first school board election on August 2, 1916, voters also got a chance to vote on a choice of nine names.
Folklore, now embedded in many Anchorage histories, tells us Anchorage won handily, apparently since most people felt it was the port which influenced the railroad to establish its headquarters here. Not so, according to records of the Alaskan Engineering Commission dug up by M. Dianer Brenner, archivist for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
The document shows that the top vote getter was Alaska City at 146 votes. Second in the voting was Lane (in honor of the then-secretary of interior), with 129. Anchorage came in third, with 101 ballots, about nineteen percent of the total votes cast. Then came Matanuska, which had great visibility because of its identity with the nearby coal fields. The other names on the ballot were Gateway, Ship Creek, Homestead, Terminal, and Winalaska.
It appears that the U.S. Post Office arbitrarily had named the new settlement Anchorage. The Chamber of Commerce tried to change the name to Alaska City to be consistent with the vote...."
[SOURCE: John Strohmeyer: Historic Anchorage: An Illustrated History, p.12]
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" Prior to 1915, the area had been called Ship Creek or occasionally Knik Anchorage, in reference to the village of Knik across Knik Arm from the Creek. Lighters and small boats used to unload steamers sometimes called it Ship Creek Landing. The US Post Office was responsible for giving the town the name "Anchorage" in April 1915. By August citizens were given the opportunity to vote on a permanent name for the settlement. Suggested were Matanuska, Alaska City, Ship Creek, Winalaska, Gateway, Anchorage, Terminal, Homestead and Lane. School board members and the Chamber of Commerce conducted a poll. The name "Alaska City" was the majority choice. However, the federal bureaucracy being what it was, "Anchorage" was in the books and too difficult to change."
[SOURCE: B63.16.6 - Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center]
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++ QUOTES OF THE DAY ++ -- lyrics from "North to Alaska" by Johnny Horton
Where
the river is windin'Big nuggets they're findin'
North to Alaska
They go North, the rush is on
A-way up north (north to Alaska)
Way up north (north to Alaska)
North to Alaska
They go north, the rush is on
North to Alaska
They go north the rush is on
[Source: "North to Alaska" by Johnny Horton]
North To Alaska 2:47
(Franks, Horton)
Johnny Horton
Pop Chart # 4 Sept. 19, 1960
Columbia Records #41782
Album: 'Johnny Horton 16 Biggest Hits'
Columbia Legacy Records CK 69971
(Franks, Horton)
Johnny Horton
Pop Chart # 4 Sept. 19, 1960
Columbia Records #41782
Album: 'Johnny Horton 16 Biggest Hits'
Columbia Legacy Records CK 69971
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