AK Rundown, December 20th & 21st, 2008

"AK’s Last Show: Letting Go"
Host: Jessica Cochran

Intro/ News/ Credits

Buy Buy Paper Route

AK’s Bonnie Sue Hitchcock, Story

The Anchorage Daily News’ decision to end rural delivery mean on Sitka woman is out of business: delivering the paper there made her an integral part of the community.

[pkg. 5:30, 6:00 with intro]

Music Button: “Walking Through Your Town in the Snow” by Utah Phillips from Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook

Tok-bound

Aliza Sherman-Risdahl, essay

Aliza is leaving behind a lot of friends and favorites in Anchorage, to find new adventures in Tok.

[commentary 2:20., 2:36 with intro]

Letting Go, Part 1

Shana Sheehy, story

Shana’s mom Betty rafson is moving in with her; but that means Betty has to get rid of a lot of the stuff she’s accumulated over the years. And it isn’t easy.

[vox-ish story, 1:55, 2:35 with intro]

Break #1: “P.I.M.P (Snoop Dog Remix Instrumental)” by 50 Cent, from P.I.M.P (New Version)

MoonMilk Madness

Coast Alaska’s Ed Schoenfeld, Story

Ed’s fascination with caves took him to Windgate Cave on Prince of Wales Island to check out a living, growing, rock-eating mineral substance called moon milk.

[pkg, 6:05, 6:30 with intro]

300 Villages

AK’s Scott Burton

AK’s Weekly Trip around the state. This week, Afognak Native Village. No one lives there, but some think of it as home.

[vox with music]

Calendar of Events

AK’s weekly look at upcoming events around the state

ChipMunks, Revisited

KUCB’s Anne Hillman, Story

Unalaska singer Lynda Lybeck-Robinson includes a new version of the Chipmunks famous Christmas classic on her new Christmas album – 50 years after the original came out.

[pkg, 3:53, 4:20 with intro]

Music Button: “Letting You go” by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from Hard Promises (Remastered)

Letting Go, Part 2

Shana Sheehy, Story

Shana and her Mom Betty set themselves a timer and get to work, picking out the stuff to keep from the stuff to let go.

[vox, 2:54, 3:06 with intro]

Break #2: “You keep Me Hanging on” by Javier Marines from Classic Rock of the 80’s Instrumentals, Vol. 8

Letting Go, Part 3

Shana Sheehy, story

For Shana’s Mom Betty Rafson, letting go of stuff means letting go of her lifelong effort to organize that stuff – and facing up to her own desires about how else to spend her time. [vox, 2:18, 3:22 with intro]

Story Corps: Point Barrow Discovery

Johanna Eurich, Story

Archaeologist Claire Allix made a startling discovery at Point Barrow in July: a pair of in tact wooden sled runners that are 1600 years old.

[storycorps interview segment, 2:09,3:05 with intro, plus some music]

A Time for Tlingit

AK’s Scott Burton, Story

A gathering in Juneau provides a safe place for people like Nora Dauenhauer and Mary Felleti to speak Tlingit: it’s something they haven’t always had, and they cherish it.

[pkg, 5:10, 5:31 with intro]

Bethel and Christmas

Poem by Carolyn Kremers, read by Chris Pastrow

No Goodbye

Jessica Cochran, essay

My parting thoughts on AK and telling Alaska’s stories

Close Music: “The End(Greatest Hits Version)” by The Doors from The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits