For all you people in the Lower 48

where the temperature gets all the way down to 65!, in most of Alaska, 65 degrees is a good summer day.  More important, even today, one-third of Alaska’s population cannot be reached by road. There is one river barge a year for the ‘heavy stuff’ and everything else comes in by plane.  And for the smaller villages, from the plane to your home, it’s by snow machine or dogsled. In some villages mail is once a week and there are dead zones where you IPhone will not work. But there is one thing all Alaskans have in common.  Barrow – recently renamed Utqiaġvik – may be 3,500 air miles from Washington D. C. but it is still the click of a mouse from D. C.  The Internet has made us all one nation and what happens in D. C. no longer ‘stays in D. C.’

https://bit.ly/2RsZ6N1, https://www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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