• By George Peterson, Special to the News-Miner

FAIRBANKS — Summer 2018 will mark my 20th anniversary as a tour guide at Gold Dredge 8 in Fox. In that time, I have worked for several owners and presented information about the gold mining history of Fairbanks using different formats. One thing over all those years, though, has remained con…

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FAIRBANKS — Here is what I remember from the first time my immigrant father visited me when I was an adult and living on my own: him staring into my kitchen garbage can.

FAIRBANKS — A handful of decades toiling in libraries has made a bibliothecarial (“of or relating to a library”) impression on me, for I view things through a library-related lens. For example, libraries popped into mind recently while reading articles about how curiosity diminishes monotony…