Thursday
August 19, 2004
'What
we have... and why we have it'
Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: Tibetan
Monks perform "Mystical Arts of Tibet" - The fabulous
multiphonic singers of Tibet's Drepung Loseling Monastery, whose
sellout performances in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center received
national acclaim, will perform in Ketchikan as part of their
international tour of "Mystical Arts of Tibet." The
performance will be on September 28th at 7:30pm at the Ketchikan
High School Auditorium.
The performance features multiphonic
singing, wherein the monks simultaneously intone three notes
of a chord. The Drepung Loseling monks are particularly renowned
for this unique singing. They also utilize traditional instruments
such as a 10-foot long dungchen trumpets, drums, bells, cymbals,
and gyaling horns. Rich brocade costumes and masked dances, such
as the Dance of the Sacred Snow Lion, add to the exotic
splendor.
The monks of the Drepung Loseling
Monastery have performed with Kitaro, Paul Simon, Philip Glass,
Natalie Merchant, Patti Smith and the Grateful Dead. Their music
was featured on the Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack of Seven
Years in Tibet, and they performed with Philip Glass at Lincoln
Center, NY, in the premier presentation of his award-winning
music for the Martin Scorsese film Kundun. They are part
of the Smithsonian Institution Folklife program to preserve traditional
music and dance. - More...
Thursday - August 19, 2004
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Columnists
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Michael
Reagan: Democrats
and Double Standards - Democrats are demanding that President
Bush stop Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - an organization over
which he has no control - from running their TV ad questioning
John Kerry's claims about his Vietnam service. They want him
to condemn the ad. - More...
Thursday - August 19, 2004 |
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Bob Ciminel
- Fish or Cut Bait: The
Case of the Disappearing Bomber - January 31, 1956 drew to
a close as most mid-winter days do in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It was 27 degrees with a 10-knot wind out of the northwest creating
a 10-degree wind chill. The steel mills stretched out along the
banks of the Monongahela River began casting an orange glow into
the sky, periodically punctuated by the brilliant white light
of the Bessemer converters turning molten iron into molten steel.
For the crew and passengers aboard U.S. Air Force bomber 44-29125,
a B-25N twin-engine "Mitchell" winging its way eastward,
the day would end in tragedy. - More...
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June Allen Column
 Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
- Harold Gillam was among the boldest of those gutsy pioneer
bush pilots who painted Alaska's early aviation history on an
enormous canvas of rugged and unforgiving wilderness often cradled
in the foulest, most extreme weather on the planet.
Oldtime pilots said that there
were three kinds of Alaska weather: clear and unlimited, called
Pan Am weather; then ordinary weather, and lastly, there was
"Gillam weather." While more prudent pilots sat out
the worst days, the quiet-loner Gillam would shake his head and
say, "The weather's never as bad as it looks."
There were, of course, times
the weather was indeed as bad as it looked and Gillam had his
share of heart-stopping takeoffs, hairy landings, and more than
a few minor accidents and serious crashes as well. But it was
said that he had cat's eyes and could fly in the winter darkness
as well as the daylight. Early in his career the lucky pilot
had been given the nickname "Thrill 'em, spill 'em, no kill
'em Gillam." - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - August 17, 2004
 Ketchikan's
'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname
Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City; A story of its founding
Remembering
'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger
Alaska's
Deepwater Highway; A part of Alaska history
Ketchikan's
American Legionnaires; Here's to 'the boys' of Post #3 -
Ketchikan's
Cruise Ship Industry; A light-hearted look at its origins
Ketchikan's
First City Players; Did you hear that applause?
A
biography of Alaska's herring: A little fish of huge importance...
Read more stories by June Allen...
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Ketchikan Charter Commission
Meeting Agendas & Information Packets
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The Charter Commission
will be holding Public Hearings on August 13th at 7 pm, August
20th at 7 pm and August 28th at noon in the City Council Chambers.
We'd certainly appreciate hearing from the residents of Ketchikan.
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